Title :

Identifying class name inconsistency in hierarchy: a first simple heuristic

Author(s) :

Alidra, Abdelghani [Auteur]
Université Badji Mokhtar Annaba [UBMA]
Saker, Moussa [Auteur]
Université Badji Mokhtar Annaba [UBMA]
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 :

IWST 2017 - 12th International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies

City :

Maribor

Country :

Slovénie

Start date of the conference :

2017-09-04

Journal title :

IWST '17 Proceedings of the 12th edition of the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies

Publisher :

ACM

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Langage de programmation [cs.PL]
Informatique [cs]/Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

English abstract : [en]

Giving good class names is an important task. Good programmers often report that they take several attempts to find an adequate one. Often programmers do not name consistently classes within a package, project or hierarchy. ...
Show more >Giving good class names is an important task. Good programmers often report that they take several attempts to find an adequate one. Often programmers do not name consistently classes within a package, project or hierarchy. This is a problem because it hampers understanding the systems. In this article we present a simple heuristic (a distribution) to characterise class naming. We combine such a heuristic with structural information to identify inconsistent class names. In addition, we use this simple heuristic to give packages a shape. We applied such heuristic to 285 packages in Pharo to identify misnamed classes. Some of these misnamed classes are reported and discussed here.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

Source :

Harvested from HAL