Advances in Software Engineering: Comprehension, Evaluation, and Evolution

✍ Scribed by Hakan Erdogmus, Oryal Tanir, Anatol W. Kark, François Coallier (auth.), Hakan Erdogmus, Oryal Tanir (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 480
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Software engineering is a rapidly growing and changing field. Over the last dec­ ade, it has gained significant popularity, and it is now heralded as a discipline of its own. This edited collection presents recent advances in software engineering in the areas of evolution, comprehension, and evaluation. The theme of the book addresses the increasing need to understand and assess software systems in order to measure their quality, maintain them, adapt them to changing requirements and technology, and migrate them to new platforms. This need can be satisfied by studying how software systems are built and maintained, by finding new paradigms, and by building new tools to support the activities involved in devel­ oping contemporary software systems. The contributions to the book are from major results and findings of leading researchers, under the mandate of the Consortium for Software Engineering Re­ search (CSER). CSER has been in existence since 1996. The five founding in­ dustrial and academic partners wanted to create a research environment that would appeal to the applied nature of the industrial partners, as well as to ad­ vance the state of the art and develop fresh expertise. The research projects of the Consortium are partially funded by the industrial partners, and partially by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Technical and administrative management of the Consortium is provided by the National Research Council of Canada-specifically by members of the Software Engi­ neering Group ofthe Institute for Information Technology.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Object-Oriented Metrics: A Review of Theory and Practice....Pages 23-50
Studies of the Work Practices of Software Engineers....Pages 51-72
Assessing the Usefulness of the TkSee Software Exploration Tool....Pages 73-93
Clones Occurrence in Java and Modula-3 Software Systems....Pages 95-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Pattern-Based Design Recovery with SPOOL....Pages 113-135
Approaches to Clustering for Program Comprehension and Remodularization....Pages 137-157
Automatic Architectural Clustering of Software....Pages 159-176
Discovering Implicit Inheritance Relations in Non-Object-Oriented Code....Pages 177-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Design Properties and Evolvability of Object-Oriented Systems....Pages 197-224
Using Textual Redundancy to Study the Maintainability of Source Code....Pages 225-241
Building Parallel Applications Using Design Patterns....Pages 243-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
The SPOOL Design Repository: Architecture, Schema, and Mechanisms....Pages 269-294
The Software Bookshelf....Pages 295-339
Dynamic Documents Over the Web....Pages 341-360
Support for Geographically Dispersed Software Teams....Pages 361-385
Parsing C++ Code Despite Missing Declarations....Pages 387-406
Towards Environment Retargetable Parser Generators....Pages 407-437
Back Matter....Pages 439-467

✦ Subjects

Software Engineering; Programming Techniques