dc.contributor.author |
O'Shea, Pamela |
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dc.contributor.author |
Exton, Chris |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2012-06-14T13:35:03Z |
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dc.date.available |
2012-06-14T13:35:03Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2005 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
O'Shea, P. (2005)" An investigation of Java abstraction usage for program modifications" IWPC '05 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10344/2264 |
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dc.description |
peer-reviewed |
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dc.description.abstract |
This paper reports upon the results of an investigation
concerning the use and type of Java abstractions employed
during software maintenance. The source of data consists
of eighty-eight program summaries extracted from online
developer mailing lists. Specifically, the summaries describing
modifications, thirty-six in total, were examined
from the perspective of five task types, including adaptive,
corrective, emergency, perfective and preventive. Corrective
and perfective task types were the two most commonly
found. Abstractions are examined per task type and are
also presented in three sequential stages as beginning, middle
and end of the summaries. The results show that middle
(within program level) abstractions dominate each task
type, with the higher (system and architecture level) and
lower (code and java virtual machine level) abstractions
following respectively. The results detail the type of abstractions
used in each task type and summarise the abstractions
found for modifications in general with potential
applications to support the design of Java software visualisation
tools. |
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dc.language.iso |
eng |
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dc.publisher |
IEEE Computer Society |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
International Workshop on Program Comprehension; '05; |
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dc.rights |
© 2005 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. |
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dc.subject |
java abstraction |
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dc.subject |
software maintenance |
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dc.title |
An investigation of Java abstraction usage for program modifications |
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dc.type |
Conference item |
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all_ul_research |
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dc.type.supercollection |
ul_published_reviewed |
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dc.contributor.sponsor |
SFI |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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