The proposed volume will contain both practically usable research as well as reviews of different areas of interest in the software engineering literature, such as clone identification. The contents of the various sections will provide a better understanding of known problems as well as detailed treatment of advanced topics. Consequently the book consolidates the work and findings from leading researchers in the software research community.The book is relevant to real-world problems and not merely based on toy examples; many of the chapters include results and examples of industrial-strength software. A chapter is dedicated to tools that can readily be used in addressing many of the problems encountered with software. Some of the key software engineering topics addressed are maintainability, architectural recovery, code analysis, software migration, empirical studies, and tool support.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I: Empirical Studies: O-O Metrics: Principles and Practice. Experiences Conducting Studies of the Work Practices of Software Engineers. Towards Assessing the Usefulness of the TKSee Software Exploration Tool: A Case Study. Comparison of Clones Occurrence in Java and Modula-3 Software Systems.- Part II: Architectural Recovery: The SPOOL Approach to Pattern-Based Recovery of Design Components. Evaluation of Approaches to Clustering for Program Comprehension and Remodularization. Automatic Architectural Clustering of Software. Discovering Implicit Inheritance Relations in Non Object-Oriented Code.- Part III: Maintainability: Design Properties and Evolvability of Object-Oriented Systems. Using Textual Redundancy to Study Source Code Maintainability. Building Parallel Applications Using Design Patterns.- Part IV: Tool Support: The SPOOL Design Repository: Architecture, Schema, and Mechanisms. The Software Bookshelf. Dynamic Documents Over the Web. Support for Geographically Dispersed Software Teams. Parsing C++ Code Despite Missing Declarations. Towards Environment-Retargetable Parser Generators.
