Characterizing classes

Wirfs-Brock, Rebecca

doi:10.1109/ms.2006.43

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“…Our visualization is centered around the notion of role of an object-oriented class. Wirfs-Brock [189] identified six stereotypical role types that a class can play:…”

Section: Role Stereotypementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Unlike the previous work which focused on adding role as an extension of static UML models, we built an interactive polymetric view visualisation without referring to UML models. We also utilise the 6 role-stereotypes invented by Wirfs-Brock [189], which are at a different level of abstraction compared to the class-stereotypes used by other previous work [57] [58] [59] [214]. Our visualisation tool also proven to be scalable, i.e.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The concept of "role stereotype" was introduced by Wirfs-Brock as a concept to denote ideal types of well-scoped responsibilities of classes [189]. Such role stereotypes indicate generic responsibilities that classes play in the design of a system, such as controller, information holder, or interfacer.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, their definition of stereotypes is quite simple. Alternatively, Wirfs-Brock proposes role-stereotypes as the responsibilities that a class can have in an object-oriented system [189]. Some of both stereotypes are similar (e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this paper, we present RoleViz, a role-stereotypes-based visualization tool, and evaluate its usefulness to understand the architecture of an object-oriented system. We use the role-stereotypes [189] of a manually labeled ground-truth provided in [204]. Our study shows the effectiveness of RoleViz to help developers in realistic software comprehension tasks.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2018 44th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA)

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Context: In modern software development, software modeling is considered to be an essential part of the software architecture and design activities. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has become the de facto standard for software modeling in industry. Surprisingly, there are only a few empirical studies on the practices and impacts of UML modeling in software development. This is mainly due to the lack of empirical data on real-life software systems that use UML modeling. Objective: This PhD thesis contributes to this matter by describing a method to build and curate a big corpus of open-source-software (OSS) projects that contain UML models. Subsequently, this thesis offers observations on the practices and impacts of using UML modeling in these OSS projects. Method: We combine techniques from repository mining and image classification in order to successfully identify more than 24.000 open source projects on GitHub that together contain more than 93.000 UML models. Machine learning techniques are also used to enrich the corpus with annotations. Finally, various empirical studies, including a case study, a user study, a large-scale survey and an experiment, have been carried out across this set of projects. Result: The results show that UML is generally perceived to be helpful to new contributors. The most important motivation for using UML seems to be to facilitate collaboration. In particular, teams use UML during communication and planning of joint implementation efforts. Our study also shows that the use of UML modeling has a positive impact on software quality, i.e. it correlates with lower defect proneness. Further, we find out that visualisation of design concepts, such as class role-stereotypes, helps developers to perform better in software comprehension tasks.

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“…Our visualization is centered around the notion of role of an object-oriented class. Wirfs-Brock [189] identified six stereotypical role types that a class can play:…”

Section: Role Stereotypementioning

confidence: 99%