Coherent dependence clusters

Authors:
Syed S. Islam;Jens Krinke;David Binkley;Mark Harman
Affiliations:
King's College London, London, United Kingdom;King's College London, London, United Kingdom;Loyola University in Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA;King's College London, London, United Kingdom
Venue:
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT workshop on Program analysis for software tools and engineering
Year:
2010

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Abstract

Large clusters of mutual dependence can cause problems for comprehension, testing and maintenance. This paper introduces the concept of coherent dependence clusters, techniques for their efficient identification, visualizations to better understand them, empirical results concerning their practical significance. As the paper will show, coherent dependence clusters facilitate a fine grained analysis of the subtle relationships between clusters of dependence.