Mining Subclassing Directives to Improve Framework Reuse

Marcel Bruch (1) , Mira Mezini (1) , Martin Monperrus (1)

1 Software Technology Group [Darmstadt]

To help developers in using frameworks, good documentation is crucial. However, it is a challenge to create high quality documentation especially of hotspots in white-box frameworks. This paper presents an approach to documentation of object-oriented white-box frameworks which mines from client code four different kinds of documentation items, which we call subclassing directives. A case study on the Eclipse JFace user-interface framework shows that the approach can improve the state of API documentation w.r.t. subclassing directives.

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Marcel Bruch, Mira Mezini, Martin Monperrus. Mining Subclassing Directives to Improve Framework Reuse. Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa. ⟨10.1109/MSR.2010.5463347⟩. ⟨hal-01575347⟩