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Reverse engineering framework reuse interfaces

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Jukka ViljamaaAuthors Info & Claims

ESEC/FSE-11: Proceedings of the 9th European software engineering conference held jointly with 11th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering

Pages 217 - 226

https://doi.org/10.1145/940071.940101

Published: 01 September 2003 Publication History

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Object-oriented application frameworks provide an established way of reusing the design and implementation of applications in a specific domain. Using a framework for creating applications is not a trivial task, however, and special tools are needed for supporting the process. Tool support, in turn, requires explicit specification of the reuse interfaces of frameworks. Unfortunately these specifications typically become quite extensive and complex for non-trivial frameworks. In this paper we discuss the possibility to reverse engineer a reuse interface specification from a framework's and its example applications' source code. We also introduce a programming environment that supports both making and using such specifications. In our environment, the reuse interface modeling is supported by a concept analysis based reverse engineering technique described in this paper.

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Reverse engineering framework reuse interfaces
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
    2. Software post-development issues
      1. Software reverse engineering
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments
    2. Software libraries and repositories

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ESEC/FSE-11: Proceedings of the 9th European software engineering conference held jointly with 11th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering

September 2003

394 pages

ISBN:1581137435

DOI:10.1145/940071

General Chair:
Jukka Paakki
University of Helsinki, Finland
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University of L'Aquila, Italy

ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 28, Issue 5
September 2003
382 pages
ISSN:0163-5948
DOI:10.1145/949952
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