S.C. Shaw
Moral dominance relations for program comprehension
Shaw, S.C.; Goldstein, M.; Munro, M.; Burd, E.
Abstract
Dominance trees have been used as a means for reengineering legacy systems into potential reuse candidates. The dominance relation suggests the reuse candidates which are identified by strongly directly dominated subtrees. We review the approach and illustrate how the dominance tree may fail to show the relationship between the strongly direct dominated procedures and the directly dominated procedures. We introduce a relation of generalized conditional independence which strengthens the argument for the adoption of the potential reuse candidates suggested by the dominance tree and explains their relationship with the directly dominated vertices. This leads to an improved dominance tree, the moral dominance tree, which helps aid program comprehension available from the tree. The generalized conditional independence relation also identifies potential reuse candidates that are missed by the dominance relation.
Citation
Shaw, S., Goldstein, M., Munro, M., & Burd, E. (2003). Moral dominance relations for program comprehension. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 29(9), 851-863. https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2003.1232289
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Sep 1, 2003 |
Publication Date | Sep 1, 2003 |
Deposit Date | Oct 8, 2008 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 8, 2008 |
Journal | IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering |
Print ISSN | 0098-5589 |
Electronic ISSN | 1939-3520 |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 29 |
Issue | 9 |
Pages | 851-863 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.2003.1232289 |
Keywords | program comprehension |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1598079 |
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