Mining Software Components from Object-Oriented APIs
Software Engineering
2016-06-03 v1 Artificial Intelligence
Abstract
Object-oriented Application Programing Interfaces (APIs) support software reuse by providing pre-implemented functionalities. Due to the huge number of included classes, reusing and understanding large APIs is a complex task. Otherwise, software components are admitted to be more reusable and understandable entities than object-oriented ones. Thus, in this paper, we propose an approach for reengineering object-oriented APIs into component-based ones. We mine components as a group of classes based on the frequency they are used together and their ability to form a quality-centric component. To validate our approach, we experimented on 100 Java applications that used Android APIs.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1606.00561,
title = {Mining Software Components from Object-Oriented APIs},
author = {Anas Shatnawi and Abdelhak Seriai and Houari Sahraoui and Zakarea Al-Shara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.00561},
year = {2016}
}