Empirical Study of Programming to an Interface

Verhaeghe, Benoît; Fuhrman, Christopher; Guerrouj, Latifa; Anquetil, Nicolas; Ducasse, Stephane

Document type :

Communication dans un congrès avec actes

Title :

Empirical Study of Programming to an Interface

Author(s) :

Verhaeghe, Benoît [Auteur]
Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Fuhrman, Christopher [Auteur]
Ecole de Technologie Supérieure [Montréal] [ETS]
Guerrouj, Latifa [Auteur]
Ecole de Technologie Supérieure [Montréal] [ETS]
Anquetil, Nicolas [Auteur]

Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]
Ducasse, Stephane [Auteur]

Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution [RMOD]

Conference title :

Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2019)

City :

San Diego

Country :

Etats-Unis d'Amérique

Start date of the conference :

2019-11-11

English keyword(s) :

Java interfaces
coupling
empirical study
software repositories
cochange
GitHub

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Langage de programmation [cs.PL]

English abstract : [en]

A popular recommendation to programmers in object-oriented software is to "program to an interface, not an implementation" (PTI). Expected benefits include increased simplicity from abstraction, decreased dependency on ...
Show more >A popular recommendation to programmers in object-oriented software is to "program to an interface, not an implementation" (PTI). Expected benefits include increased simplicity from abstraction, decreased dependency on implementations , and higher flexibility. Yet, interfaces must be immutable, excessive class hierarchies can be a form of complexity, and "speculative generality" is a known code smell. To advance the empirical knowledge of PTI, we conducted an empirical investigation that involves 126 Java projects on GitHub, aiming to measuring the decreased dependency benefits (in terms of cochange).Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) - UMR 9189

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