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Implicit context: easing software evolution and reuse

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Robert J. Walker,

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 25, Issue 6

Pages 69 - 78

https://doi.org/10.1145/357474.355054

Published: 01 November 2000 Publication History

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Software systems should consist of simple, conceptually clean software components interacting along narrow, well-defined paths. All too often, this is not reality: complex components end up interacting for reasons unrelated to the functionality they provide. We refer to knowledge within a component that is not conceptually required for the individual behaviour of that component as extraneous embedded knowledge (EEK). EEK creeps into a system in many forms, including dependences upon particular names and the passing of extraneous parameters. This paper proposes the use of implicit context as a means for reducing EEK in systems by combining a mechanism to reflect upon what has happened in a system, through queries on the call history, with a mechanism for altering calls to and from a component. We demonstrate the benefits of implicit context by describing its use to reduce EEK in the Java™ Swing library.

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 25, Issue 6

Nov. 2000

169 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/357474

Editors:
Will Tracz
Lockheed Martin Federal systems, Owego, NY
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David S. Rosenblum
Univ. of California, Irvine

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SIGSOFT '00/FSE-8: Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering: twenty-first century applications
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ISBN:1581132050
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