Paper Info
Title
On the difficulties of raising the level of abstraction and facilitating reuse in software modelling: the case for signature extension
Abstract
Reuse is central to improving the software development process, increasing software quality and decreasing time-to-market. Hence it is of paramount importance that modelling languages provide features that enable the specification and modularization of reusable artefacts, as well as their subsequent reuse. In this paper we outline several difficulties caused by the finality of method signatures that make it hard to specify and use reusable artefacts encapsulating several variants. The difficulties are illustrated with a running example. To evaluate whether these difficulties can be observed at the programming level, we report on an empirical study conducted on the Java Platform API as well as present workarounds used in various programming languages to deal with the rigid nature of signatures. Finally, we outline signature extension as an approach to overcome these problems at the modelling level.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/MiSE.2019.00018
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Modelling in Software Engineerings
Keywords
Field
DocType
reuse,separation of concerns,modularity,usage interface,API
Workaround,Software engineering,Reuse,Computer science,Modeling language,Software,Modular programming,Software development process,Software quality,Java
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2575-4467
978-1-7281-2232-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthias Schöttle1798.86
Jörg Kienzle273269.38