Annotating reusable software architectures with specialization patterns

Hakala, Markku; Hautamäki, Juha; Koskimies, Kai; Paakki, Jukka; Viljamaa, Antti; Viljamaa, Jukka

doi:10.1109/wicsa.2001.948426

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“…Hakala et al [29] proposed specialization patterns to define the specialization interface, i.e., the hot-spots, of a framework. Their approach is supported by a tool called FRamework EDitor (Fred).…”

Section: Framework Documentation Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Two Studies of Framework-Usage Templates Extracted from Dynamic Traces

Heydarnoori

Czarnecki

Binder

et al. 2012

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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Abstract-Object-oriented frameworks are widely used to develop new applications. They provide reusable concepts that are instantiated in application code through potentially complex implementation steps such as subclassing, implementing interfaces, and calling framework operations. Unfortunately, many modern frameworks are difficult to use because of their large and complex APIs and frequently incomplete user documentation. To cope with these problems, developers often use existing framework applications as a guide. However, locating concept implementations in those sample applications is typically challenging due to code tangling and scattering. To address this challenge, we introduce the notion of concept-implementation templates, which summarize the necessary concept-implementation steps and identify them in the sample application code, and a technique, named FUDA, to automatically extract such templates from dynamic traces of sample applications. This paper further presents the results of two experiments conducted to evaluate the quality and usefulness of FUDA templates. The experimental evaluation of FUDA with 14 concepts in five widely used frameworks suggests that the technique is effective in producing templates with relatively few false positives and false negatives for realistic concepts by using two sample applications. Moreover, we observed in a user study with 28 programmers that the use of templates reduced the concept-implementation time compared to when documentation was used.

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Section: Framework Documentation Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Two Studies of Framework-Usage Templates Extracted from Dynamic Traces

Heydarnoori

Czarnecki

Binder

et al. 2012

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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“…[10]). Previous descriptive documentation approaches [2], [4], [5], [6], [8], [9], [10], [11], [22], were proposed independently of a framework model. Although not explicitly stated they implicitly assume a few characteristics, generally largesized, whitebox, calling frameworks.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Specialization patterns [6] describe the static dependencies between structural elements of objectoriented programs. They are implementation oriented (too detailed) and cover both the framework adaptation and the application instantiation.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has been widely recognized that it is necessary to effectively communicate frameworks and provide appropriate tool support, in order to minimize the effort required to build applications. Several steps have been given in this direction (e.g., [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]), but as is demonstrated in [10] difficulties still endure. We follow along these lines in order to get closer to the two-abovementioned goals.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Design and Description of a Classification System Framework for Easier Reuse

Lopes

Tavares

Monteiro

2007

14th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS'07)

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Frameworks are an important technology to reduce software development costs and shorten the time-tomarket. However, framework complexity presents reuse problems that limit its success as an application development alternative. It has been widely recognized that is necessary to effectively communicate frameworks and provide appropriate tool support, but we argue that difficulties are also related to the considered framework model.We find that the level of support that tools can provide is decisively dependent on the kind of available framework documentation, which in turn is intimately tied to the considered framework model. In this paper, we present our framework model and respective supporting notation. We describe their appliance to the design and description of an application framework. This case study illustrates how the proposed model and documentation approach alleviate difficulties of framework reuse, namely its comprehension and instantiation.

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“…Different techniques to find and define the specialization interfaces for Java frameworks using FRED have been discussed in [12], summarizing our experiences with FRED so far. We have applied FRED to two major frameworks: a public domain graphical editor framework (JHotDraw [15]) and an industrial framework by Nokia intended for creating GUI components for a family of network management systems.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Generating Application Development Environments for Java Frameworks

Hakala

Hautamäki

Koskimies

et al. 2001

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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An application framework is a collection of classes implementing the shared architecture of a family of applications. A technique is proposed for defining the specialization interface of a framework in such a way that it can be used to automatically produce a task-driven programming environment for guiding the application development process. Using the environment, the application developer can incrementally construct an application that follows the conventions implied by the framework architecture. The environment provides specialization instructions adapting automatically to the application-specific context, and an integrated source code editor which responds to actions that conflict with the given specialization interface. The main characteristics and implementation principles of the tool are explained.

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Annotating reusable software architectures with specialization patterns

Cited by 20 publications

References 17 publications

Two Studies of Framework-Usage Templates Extracted from Dynamic Traces

Two Studies of Framework-Usage Templates Extracted from Dynamic Traces

Design and Description of a Classification System Framework for Easier Reuse

Generating Application Development Environments for Java Frameworks

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