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(2010) Formal concept analysis, Dordrecht, Springer.
Concept analysis as a framework for mining functional features from legacy code
Amal El Kharraz, Petko Valtchev, Hafedh Mili
pp. 267-282
Legacy OO applications typically implement a set of functional features which, in the absence of aspect-oriented techniques to separately develop and maintain them, end up embodied in the same class hierarchies. We identified three types of design techniques used to implement that embodiment: a) multiple inheritance– or simulations thereof, b) aggregation/delegation, and c) what we referred to as ad-hoc implementation. We are interested in identifying and isolating software artifacts that implement distinct functional features. Here, we explore the use of concept analysis to detect ad-hoc implementations of functional features. We present the principles underlying our overall approach, a formalization of the problem in terms of concept analysis, a method for identifying functional features based on the construction and exploration of the concept latice, and the results of an experimental validation study.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11928-6_19
Full citation:
El Kharraz, A. , Valtchev, P. , Mili, H. (2010)., Concept analysis as a framework for mining functional features from legacy code, in L. Kwuida & B. Sertkaya (eds.), Formal concept analysis, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 267-282.
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