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View all- Carruthers JDiaz-Pace JIrrazábal E(2024)A longitudinal study on the temporal validity of software samplesInformation and Software Technology10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107404168:COnline publication date: 1-Apr-2024
Investigating design anti-pattern and design pattern mutations and their change- and fault-proneness
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Zeinab Azadeh Kermansaravi, Md Saidur Rahman, 
Foutse Khomh, Fehmi Jaafar, 
Yann-Gaël GuéhéneucAuthors Info & Claims
Zeinab Azadeh Kermansaravi, Md Saidur Rahman, Foutse Khomh, Fehmi Jaafar, Yann-Gaël GuéhéneucAuthors Info & ClaimsAbstract
During software evolution, inexperienced developers may introduce design anti-patterns when they modify their software systems to fix bugs or to add new functionalities based on changes in requirements. Developers may also use design patterns to promote software quality or as a possible cure for some design anti-patterns. Thus, design patterns and design anti-patterns are introduced, removed, and mutated from one another by developers. Many studies investigated the evolution of design patterns and design anti-patterns and their impact on software development. However, they investigated design patterns or design anti-patterns in isolation and did not consider their mutations and the impact of these mutations on software quality. Therefore, we report our study of bidirectional mutations between design patterns and design anti-patterns and the impacts of these mutations on software change- and fault-proneness. We analyzed snapshots of seven Java software systems with diverse sizes, evolution histories, and application domains. We built Markov models to capture the probability of occurrences of the different design patterns and design anti-patterns mutations. Results from our study show that (1) design patterns and design anti-patterns mutate into other design patterns and–or design anti-patterns. They also show that (2) some change types primarily trigger mutations of design patterns and design anti-patterns (renaming and changes to comments, declarations, and operators), and (3) some mutations of design anti-patterns and design patterns are more faulty in specific contexts. These results provide important insights into the evolution of design patterns and design anti-patterns and its impact on the change- and fault-proneness of software systems.
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