Observations on the evolution of an industrial OO framework

An approach for identifying potential modules for restructuring in large software systems using product release history is adapted to better suit object-oriented frameworks and is applied to an industrial black-box framework product in the telecommunication domain. Our study shows that using historical information as a way of identifying structural shortcomings in an object-oriented system is viable and useful. The study thereby strengthens the approach and demonstrates that the approach is adaptable and useful for object-oriented systems. The usefulness of the original approach has been validated through this study too.