Circular Dependencies and Change-Proneness: An Empirical Study

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SANER.2015.7081834" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SANER.2015.7081834</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SANER.2015.7081834" target="_blank" >10.1109/SANER.2015.7081834</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Circular Dependencies and Change-Proneness: An Empirical Study

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Advice that circular dependencies between programming artefacts should be avoided goes back to the earliest work on software design, and is well-established and rarely questioned. However, empirical studies have shown that real-world (Java) programs areriddled with circular dependencies between artefacts on different levels of abstraction and aggregation. It has been suggested that additional heuristics could be used to distinguish between bad and harmless cycles, for instances by relating them to thehierarchical structure of the packages within a program, or to violations of additional design principles. In this study, we try to explore this question further by analysing the relationship between different kinds of circular dependencies between Javaclasses, and their change frequency. We find that (1) the presence of cycles can have a significant impact on the change proneness of the classes near these cycles and (2) neither subtype knowledge nor the location of the cycle within the

Název v anglickém jazyce

Circular Dependencies and Change-Proneness: An Empirical Study

Popis výsledku anglicky

Advice that circular dependencies between programming artefacts should be avoided goes back to the earliest work on software design, and is well-established and rarely questioned. However, empirical studies have shown that real-world (Java) programs areriddled with circular dependencies between artefacts on different levels of abstraction and aggregation. It has been suggested that additional heuristics could be used to distinguish between bad and harmless cycles, for instances by relating them to thehierarchical structure of the packages within a program, or to violations of additional design principles. In this study, we try to explore this question further by analysing the relationship between different kinds of circular dependencies between Javaclasses, and their change frequency. We find that (1) the presence of cycles can have a significant impact on the change proneness of the classes near these cycles and (2) neither subtype knowledge nor the location of the cycle within the

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

IN - Informatika

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2015

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

SANER 2015

ISBN

978-1-4799-8469-5

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

241-250

Název nakladatele

IEEE

Místo vydání

Piscataway

Místo konání akce

Montreal

Datum konání akce

2. 3. 2015

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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