Using Intentional Source-Code Views to Aid Software Maintenance

  • Authors:
  • Kim Mens;Bernard Poll;Sebastián González

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICSM '03 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintenance
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The conceptual structure of existing software systems isoften implicit or non-existing in the source code. We proposethe lightweight abstraction of intentional source-codeviews as a means of making these conceptual structuresmore explicit. Based on the experience gained with two casestudies, we illustrate how intentional source-code views cansimplify and improve software understanding, maintenanceand evolution in various ways. We present the results as acatalog of usage scenarios in a pattern-like format.