Conference proceeding
Scenariographer: a tool for reverse engineering class usage scenarios from method invocation sequences
21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'05), v 2005
2005
Abstract
Typical documentation for object-oriented programs includes descriptions of the parameters and return types of each method in a class, but little or no information on valid method invocation sequences. Knowing the sequence with which methods of a class can be invoked is useful information especially for software engineers (e.g., developers, testers) who are actively involved in the maintenance of large software systems. This paper describes a new approach and a tool for generating class usage scenarios (i.e., how a class is used by other classes) from method invocations, which are collected during the execution of the software. Our approach is algorithmic and employs the notion of canonical sets to categorize method sequences into groups of similar sequences, where each group represents a usage scenario for a given class.
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- Title
- Scenariographer: a tool for reverse engineering class usage scenarios from method invocation sequences
- Creators
- M Salah - Drexel UniversityT Denton - Drexel UniversityS Mancoridis - Drexel UniversityA Shokoufandeh - Drexel UniversityF.I Vokolos - Drexel UniversityIEEE Comp Soc
- Publication Details
- 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'05), v 2005
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Computer Science
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000234333200017
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-33646898215
- Other Identifier
- 991019170585304721
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- Computer Science, Software Engineering