Towards Automatically Improving Package Structure While Respecting Original Design Decisions - Archive ouverte HAL Accéder directement au contenu
Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2013

Towards Automatically Improving Package Structure While Respecting Original Design Decisions

Résumé

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.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
Abde13a-ImprovingPackageStructure-WCRE13.pdf (477.33 Ko) Télécharger le fichier
Origine : Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s)
Loading...

Dates et versions

hal-00862063 , version 1 (15-09-2013)

Identifiants

  • HAL Id : hal-00862063 , version 1

Citer

Hani Abdeen, Houari Sahraoui, Osama Shata, Nicolas Anquetil, Stéphane Ducasse. Towards Automatically Improving Package Structure While Respecting Original Design Decisions. Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Sep 2013, Glasgow, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-00862063⟩
190 Consultations
322 Téléchargements

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More