The story of moose: an agile reengineering environment
Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
Coupling Patterns in the Effective Reuse of Open Source Software
FLOSS '07 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Emerging Trends in FLOSS Research and Development
The CRSS metric for package design quality
ACSC '07 Proceedings of the thirtieth Australasian conference on Computer science - Volume 62
Identifying and Improving Reusability Based on Coupling Patterns
ICSR '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Software Reuse: High Confidence Software Reuse in Large Systems
Achieving Agility through Architecture Visibility
QoSA '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures: Architectures for Adaptive Software Systems
Package Fingerprints: A visual summary of package interface usage
Information and Software Technology
Advances in Engineering Software
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Understanding sets of classes, or packages, is an important activity in the development and reengineering of large object-oriented systems. Packages represent the coarse-grained structure of an application. They are artefacts to deploy and structure software, and therefore more than a simple generalization of classes. The relationships between packages and their contained classes are key in the decomposition of an application and its (re)-modularisation. However, it is difficult to quickly grasp the structure of a package and to understand how a package interacts with the rest of the system. We tackle this problem using butterfly visualizations, i.e., dedicated radar charts built from simple package metrics based on a language-independent meta-model. We illustrate our approach on two applications and show how we can retrieve the relevant characteristics of packages.