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XRay Views: Understanding the Internals of Classes

Gabriela Beatriz Arévalo
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Stéphane Ducasse
Oscar Nierstrasz

Abstract

Understanding the internal workings of classes is a key prerequisite to maintaining an object-oriented software sys- tem. Unfortunately, classical editing and browsing tools of- fer mainly linear and textual views of classes and their im- plementation. These views fail to expose the semantic rela- tionships between the internal parts of a class. We propose XRay views —a technique based on Concept Analysis— which reveal the internal relationships between groups of methods and attributes of a class. XRay views are com- posed out of elementary collaborations between attributes and methods, and help the engineer to build a mental model of how a class works internally. In this paper we present XRay views, and illustrate the approach by applying it on the Smalltalk class UIBuilder.
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inria-00533054 , version 1 (05-11-2010)

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Gabriela Beatriz Arévalo, Stéphane Ducasse, Oscar Nierstrasz. XRay Views: Understanding the Internals of Classes. International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'03), Nov 2003, Montreal, Canada. ⟨inria-00533054⟩
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