Pub Date : 2004-06-24DOI: 10.1109/WPC.2004.1311060
A. Hassan, R. Holt
Maintenance of evolving software systems has become the most frequently performed activity by software developers. A good understanding of the software system is needed to reduce the cost and length of this activity. Various approaches and tools have been proposed to assist in this process such as code browsers, slicing techniques, etc. These techniques neglect to use a central and vital piece of data available - the historical modification records stored in source control systems. These records offer a rich and detailed account of the evolution of the software system to its current state. In this paper, we present an approach which recovers valuable information from source control systems and attaches this information to the static dependency graph of a software system. We call this recovered information - source sticky notes. We show how to use these notes along with the software reflexion framework to assist in understanding the architecture of large software systems. To demonstrate the viability of our approach, we apply it to understand the architecture of NetBSD - a large open source operating system.
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Pub Date : 2004-06-24DOI: 10.1109/WPC.2004.1311057
N. Gold, K. Bennett
Web services provide programmatic interaction between organisations within large heterogeneous distributed systems. Using recent experiences of constructing and enhancing a data integration system for the health domain, based on Web services, we draw conclusions about new problems for program comprehension. These derive from the fundamentally dynamic and distributed nature of the environment. We suggest several key research topics for program comprehension, arguing that these are crucial if software constructed from Web services is to be supportable over a long period. Finally, we briefly summarise some wider conclusions about understanding Web services at the application domain level.
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Pub Date : 2004-06-24DOI: 10.1109/WPC.2004.1311043
Ludwik Kuzniarz, M. Staron, C. Wohlin
Stereotypes were introduced into the Unified Modeling Language (UML) to provide means of customizing this visual, general purpose, object-oriented modeling language, for its usage in specific application domains. The primary purpose of stereotypes is to brand an existing model element with a specific semantics. In addition, stereotypes can also be used as notational shorthand. The paper elaborates on this role of stereotypes from the perspective of UML, clarifies the role and describes a controlled experiment aimed at evaluation of the role - in the context of model understanding. The results of the experiment support the claim that stereotypes with graphical icons for their representation play a significant role in comprehension of models and show the size of the improvement.
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