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Evaluating Object-Oriented Designs with Link Analysis

Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Spiros Xanthos, George Stephanides

DOI 10.1109/icse.2004.1317487dblp

Abstract

The hyperlink induced topic search algorithm, which is a method of link analysis, primarily developed for retrieving information from the Web, is extended in this paper, in order to evaluate one aspect of quality in an object-oriented model. Considering the number of discrete messages exchanged between classes, it is possible to identify "God" classes in the system, elements which imply a poorly designed model. The principal eigenvectors of matrices derived from the adjacency matrix of a modified class diagram, are used to identify and quantify heavily loaded portions of an object-oriented design that deviate from the principle of distributed responsibilities. The non-principal eigenvectors are also employed in order to identify possible reusable components in the system. The methodology can be easily automated as illustrated by a Java program that has been developed for this purpose.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Chatzigeorgiou-al:ICSE04,
  author    = {Alexander Chatzigeorgiou and
               Spiros Xanthos and
               George Stephanides},
  title     = {Evaluating {Object-Oriented} Designs with Link Analysis},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {656--665},
  publisher = {{IEEE} Computer Society},
  year      = {2004},
}

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