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Reverse engineering reusable software components from object-oriented APIs

Authors:

Abdelhak-Djamel Seriai,

Houari Sahraoui,

Zakarea AlsharaAuthors Info & Claims

Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 131, Issue C

Pages 442 - 460

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2016.06.101

Published: 01 September 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Automatic component recovery from object-oriented APIs.We mined components as classes frequently used together and structural dependent.Experimented on 100 applications used four APIs. Object-oriented Application Programing Interfaces (APIs) support software reuse by providing pre-implemented functionalities. Due to the huge number of included classes, reusing and understanding large APIs is a complex task. Otherwise, software components are accepted to be more reusable and understandable entities than object-oriented ones. Thus, in this paper, we propose an approach for reengineering object-oriented APIs into component-based ones. We mine components as a group of classes based on the frequency they are used together and their ability to form a quality-centric component. To validate our approach, we experimented on 100 Java applications that used four APIs.

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September 2017

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