Pub Date : 2004-06-24DOI: 10.1109/WPC.2004.1311050
C. Mennie, C. Clarke
With the prevalence of legacy C/C++ code, it continually becomes more important to address the issues of readability and maintainability. When considering the problems with refactoring or migrating C/C++ code we see how important a role preprocessor directives play. In part, because of these preprocessor directives it is extremely difficult to maintain our code. We outline a method of fact extraction and manipulation to create a set of transformations that remove preprocessor directives from the original source, converting them into regular C/C++ code with as few changes as possible, while maintaining readability in the code. In addition, we briefly explore some of the subtle issues that arise when migrating preprocessor directives. After discussing the general architecture of our test implementation, we look at some metrics gathered by running it on two software systems.
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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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