Recovering design patterns to support program comprehension

Authors:
Linzhang Wang;Zhixiong Han;Jiantao He;Hanfei Wang;Xuandong Li
Affiliations:
Nanjing University, Nanjing, China;Nanjing University, Nanjing, China;Nanjing University, Nanjing, China;Nanjing University, Nanjing, China;Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Evidential assessment of software technologies
Year:
2012

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Abstract

This paper presents a design pattern directed software clustering approach to support program comprehension. First, the code is parsed to recover the design pattern information. Second, the code is clustered considering design patterns. Classes/interfaces are grouped into clusters based on their inter-role relationship of design patterns. Finally, a cluster-level view of the original code is constructed to support understanding the code. A prototype tool TasteJ was implemented to support the automation of proposed approach. Experiments are conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the approach. The experimental results show that the approach is encouraging and promising.