SNIAFL: Towards a Static Non-Interactive Approach to Feature Location
Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering
SNIAFL: Towards a static noninteractive approach to feature location
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Documenting after the fact: Recovering architectural design decisions
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ICCOMP'05 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS International Conference on Computers
Dynamic decision tree for legacy use-case recovery
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Understanding the behavior of a software system is animportant problem in program comprehension. Use caseshave been accepted as an effective means for describingbehavioral requirements for a software system. In thispaper, we propose a novel approach for obtaining usecases from source code. The central idea of our approachis to use the Branch-Reserving Call Graph (BRCG) as theintermediate representation of a software program. Wealso provide strategies for pruning the BRCG to avoidgenerating too many fine-grained use cases. Use cases,which may just undergo some minor modifications fromhuman experts, can be generated through traversing thepruned BRCG. The contributions of our approach arethree-fold. i) This method represents a compromisedapproach, which differs from both the static and dynamicapproaches for use case discovery. ii) This method takesinto consideration the fact that it is the branch statementsthat separate one use case from another in source code.iii) This method can avoid intensive human involvementin determining the final set of use cases. We have alsoperformed a case study for this method on a GNU system.