Identifying modules via concept analysis

  • Authors:
  • Michael Siff;Thomas W. Reps

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICSM '97 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Describes a general technique for identifying modules in legacy code. The method is based on concept analysis-a branch of lattice theory that can be used to identify similarities among a set of objects based on their attributes. We discuss how concept analysis can identify potential modules using both "positive" and "negative" information. We present an algorithmic framework to construct a lattice of concepts from a program, where each concept represents a potential module.