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18th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'03)
p. 267
XRay Views: Understanding the Internals of Classes
Gabriela Arévalo, University of Bern, Switzerland
Stéphane Ducasse, University of Bern, Switzerland
Oscar Nierstrasz, University of Bern, Switzerland
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Understanding the internal workings of classes is a key
prerequisite to maintaining an object-oriented software system.
Unfortunately, classical editing and browsing tools offer
mainly linear and textual views of classes and their implementation.
These views fail to expose the semantic relationships
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 composed
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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Index Terms- Class Understanding, Concept Analysis,
Logical Views
Citation:
Gabriela Arévalo, Stéphane Ducasse, Oscar Nierstrasz,
"XRay Views: Understanding the Internals of Classes,"
ase,
p. 267,
18th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE'03),
2003
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