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26th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'04)
pp. 656-665
Evaluating Object-Oriented Designs with Link Analysis
Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia
Spiros Xanthos, University of Macedonia
George Stephanides, University of Macedonia
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The Hyperlink Induced Topic Search algorithm,
which is a method of link analysis, primarily developed
for retrieving information from the Web, is extended in
this paper, in order to evaluate one aspect of quality in
an object-oriented model. Considering the number of
discrete messages exchanged between classes, it is
possible to identify "God" classes in the system, elements
which imply a poorly designed model. The principal
eigenvectors of matrices derived from the adjacency
matrix of a modified class diagram, are used to identify
and quantify heavily loaded portions of an object-oriented
design that deviate from the principle of
distributed responsibilities. The non-principal
eigenvectors are also employed in order to identify
possible reusable components in the system. The
methodology can be easily automated as illustrated by a
Java program that has been developed for this purpose.
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Citation:
Alexander Chatzigeorgiou, Spiros Xanthos, George Stephanides,
"Evaluating Object-Oriented Designs with Link Analysis,"
icse,
pp. 656-665,
26th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'04),
2004
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