Clustering for Generating Framework Top-Level Views

Schäfer, Thorsten and Aracic, Ivica and Mezini, Mira and Merz, Matthias and Ostermann, Klaus :
Clustering for Generating Framework Top-Level Views.
In: Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE '07). Proceedings of the 14th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering IEEE Computer Society , Washington, DC, USA
[Conference or Workshop Item] , (2007)

Abstract

To use a framework, developers need to understand its building blocks. In this paper, we present a clustering tech- nique that employs usage data from framework instantiations as examples to produce an overview of a framework's main building blocks as seen from a user's perspective. The evaluation of the approach by two case studies shows that the automatically generated building blocks are similar to a manually defined overview created by framework experts, even in cases where only few framework instantiations are available.

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