{"title":"Studying Versioning Information to Understand Inheritance Hierarchy Changes","authors":"F. V. Rysselberghe, S. Demeyer","doi":"10.1109/MSR.2007.30","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"With the widespread adoption of object-oriented programming, changing the inheritance hierarchy became an inherent part of today's software maintenance activities. Unfortunately, little is known about the \"state-of-the-practice \" with respect to changing an application's inheritance hierarchy, and consequently we do not know how the change process can be improved. In this paper, we report on a study of the hierarchy changes stored in a versioning system to explore the answers to three research questions: (1) why are hierarchy changes made? (2) what kind of hierarchy changes are made? (3) what is the impact of these changes? Based on the results of this study, we formulate 7 hypotheses which should be investigated further to make conclusive interpretations on how hierarchy changes fit in the actual change process.","PeriodicalId":201749,"journal":{"name":"Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'07:ICSE Workshops 2007)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2007-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"10","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'07:ICSE Workshops 2007)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSR.2007.30","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
With the widespread adoption of object-oriented programming, changing the inheritance hierarchy became an inherent part of today's software maintenance activities. Unfortunately, little is known about the "state-of-the-practice " with respect to changing an application's inheritance hierarchy, and consequently we do not know how the change process can be improved. In this paper, we report on a study of the hierarchy changes stored in a versioning system to explore the answers to three research questions: (1) why are hierarchy changes made? (2) what kind of hierarchy changes are made? (3) what is the impact of these changes? Based on the results of this study, we formulate 7 hypotheses which should be investigated further to make conclusive interpretations on how hierarchy changes fit in the actual change process.
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