Evolution of Component Relationships between Framework and Application

Yokomori, Reishi; Siy, Harvey; Yoshida, Norihiro et al.

Journal of Computers, 2012, 23(2), 61-79

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タイトル
Evolution of Component Relationships between Framework and Application
著者
NRID
1000040379152 1000040379152
著者名
Yokomori, Reishi
著者名
Siy, Harvey
NRID
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著者名
Yoshida, Norihiro
NRID
1000040189452 1000040189452
著者名
Noro, Masami
NRID
1000020168438 1000020168438
著者名
Inoue, Katsuro
キーワード等
software evolution
component relationships
use-relation
clone-relation
抄録
Most of today’s software applications are built on top of libraries or frameworks. The increasing number of cloud-based services gives rise to 3rd party frameworks that offer such services from a cloud platform. Just as applications evolve, frameworks also evolve. Such evolution is even more pronounced in frameworks that underlie cloud-based services. Upgrading is straightforward when the framework changes preserve the API and behavior of the offered services. However, major changes are introduced with the new framework release, which have a significant impact on the application. A framework user has to consider how to adjust to the new version. In this paper, we study the evolution of an application and its underlying framework through a multi-version analysis. For the analysis, we investigate two kinds of component relationships: one is component rank, the other is clone relation. Component rank measurement is a way of quantifying the importance of a component by its usage. As framework components are used by applications, the rankings of the components are changed. We confirm that upgrading to the new framework version has an impact to a component rank of the entire system. On the other hand, existence of code clone shows how application developers use existing framework code as a reference, and removal of clones shows which reuse activities were recognized as problematic. Analysis of results from these relationships provides useful insights into developers’ activities.
出版者
Computer Society of the Republic of China
収録物名
Journal of Computers
巻(号)
23(2)
ページ
61-79
刊行年月
2012-01
言語
英語
ハンドルURL
https://hdl.handle.net/11094/51346
PISSN
19911599
アクセス権
open access
出版タイプ
Version of Record
カテゴリ
学術雑誌論文 Journal Article