Towards Automatically Improving Package Structure While Respecting Original Design Decisions

Abdeen, Hani; Sahraoui, Houari; Shata, Osama; Anquetil, Nicolas; Ducasse, Stephane

Document type :

Communication dans un congrès avec actes

Title :

Towards Automatically Improving Package Structure While Respecting Original Design Decisions

Author(s) :

Abdeen, Hani [Auteur]
Sahraoui, Houari [Auteur]
Laboratoire de génie logiciel: Software Engineering Group [Montréal] [GEODES]
Shata, Osama [Auteur]
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 :

Working Conference on Reverse Engineering

City :

Glasgow

Country :

Royaume-Uni

Start date of the conference :

2013-09-10

Publication date :

2013-09-10

HAL domain(s) :

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

English abstract : [en]

Recently, there has been an important progress in applying search-based optimization techniques to the problem of software re-modularization. Yet, a major part of the existing body of work addresses the problem of modularizing ...
Show more >Recently, there has been an important progress in applying search-based optimization techniques to the problem of software re-modularization. Yet, a major part of the existing body of work addresses the problem of modularizing software systems from scratch, regardless of the existing packages structure. This paper presents a novel multi-objective optimization approach for improving existing packages structure. The optimization ap- proach aims at increasing the cohesion and reducing the coupling and cyclic connectivity of packages, by modifying as less as pos- sible the existing packages organization. Moreover, maintainers can specify several constraints to guide the optimization process with regard to extra design factors. To this contribution, we use the Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II). We evaluate the optimization approach through an experiment covering four real-world software systems. The results promise the effectiveness of our optimization approach for improving existing packages structure by doing very small modifications.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

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