A Metric-Based Heuristic Framework to Detect Object-Oriented Design Flaws

Abstract

One of the important activities in re-

Modularity-Oriented Refactoring

“…We expect to contradict Opdyke claim that a refactoring tool can help a designer by providing the right set of refactorings and by ensuring that each refactoring is applied correctly, but it cannot decide which refactorings to apply [16]. Habra [17] and Tahvildari et al [9][10][11] corroborate the opinion that metrics can identify potential refactorings and estimate the refactoring effect.…”

“…Tahvildari et al proposed a taxonomy for design flaws, a reengineering strategy [9], and a framework to detect design flaws and re-engineer them [10,11] for object-oriented systems using, among other, classical modularity metrics.…”

Multiobjective Optimization for Software Refactoring and Evolution

“…Munro has also performed an empirical study to justify his choice of metrics and thresholds for detecting smells. Salehie et al [30] proposed a metric-based heuristic framework to detect and locate object-oriented design flaws similar to those illustrated by Marinescu [29]. It is accomplished by evaluating design quality of an object-oriented system through quantifying deviations from good design heuristics and principles by mapping these design flaws to class-level metrics such as complexity, coupling, and cohesion by defining rules.…”

Reengineering component-based software systems with Archimetrix

“…Munro [39] as well as Salehie et al [45] use a combination of metrics to detect occurrences of different design flaws in a system. In contrast to our approach, they do not use metrics to recover an architecture but employ the metric values as indicators for the existence of anti-patterns.…”