Article in Proceedings INPROC-2000-54

BibliographyCanfora, Gerard; Czeranski, Jörg; Koschke, Rainer: Revisiting the Delta-IC Approach to Component Recovery.
In: Proceedings of the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2000).
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 140-149, english.
IEEE Computer Society Press, November 2000.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaD.2 (Software Engineering)
KeywordsComponent Recovery
Abstract

Component recovery supports program understanding, architecture recovery, and re-use. Among the best known techniques for detection of re-usable objects (related global variables and their accessor functions) is Delta-IC. This paper re-visits the origin approach and extends it in different ways. It describes a variant of Delta-IC suitable for reverse engineering that omits the slicing step of the original approach. The underlying metric of Delta-IC is extended toward types integrating ideas of the Internal Access technique such that abstract data types can also be detected. Furthermore, the connectivity metric of Delta-IC is combined with a cohesion metric based on vertex connectivity. The new metrics and the new algorithm for reverse engineering are quantitatively evaluated using the framework proposed in as a standard evaluation of clustering techniques for component recovery.

Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Software Technology, Programming Languages and Compilers
Project(s)Bauhaus
Entry dateJuly 27, 2010
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