Designing object-oriented software
Designing object-oriented software
Interfaces and specifications for the Smalltalk-80 collection classes
OOPSLA '92 conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Typing the specialization interface
OOPSLA '93 Proceedings of the eighth annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Building and maintaining analysis-level class hierarchies using Galois Lattices
OOPSLA '93 Proceedings of the eighth annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Object-oriented software construction (2nd ed.)
Object-oriented software construction (2nd ed.)
Design of class hierarchies based on concept (Galois) lattices
Theory and Practice of Object Systems - Special issue high availability in CORBA
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Refactoring: improving the design of existing code
Formal Concept Analysis: Mathematical Foundations
Formal Concept Analysis: Mathematical Foundations
Identifying modules via concept analysis
ICSM '97 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
Declarative Reasoning about the Structure of Object-Oriented Systems
TOOLS '98 Proceedings of the Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems
Object Oriented Design Pattern Inference
ICSM '99 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance
Generating complete set of implications for formal contexts
Knowledge-Based Systems
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This paper proposes to use the formal technique of Concept Analysis to analyse how methods and classes in an object-oriented inheritance hierarchy are coupled by means of the inheritance and interfaces relationships. Especially for large and complex inheritance hierarchies, we believe that a formal analysis of how behaviour is reused can provide insight in how the hierarchy was built and the different relationships among the classes. To perform this analysis, we use behavioural information provided by the self sends and super sends made in each class of the hierarchy. The proposed technique allows us to identify weak spots in the inheritance hierarchy that may be improved, and to serve as guidelines for extending or customising an object-oriented application framework. As a first step, this paper reports on an initial experiment with the Magnitude hierarchy in the Smalltalk programming language.