Computer Science – Computation and Language
Scientific paper
2010-03-06
Acta Univ. Sapientiae, Informatica, 2,1 (2010) 40-50
Computer Science
Computation and Language
Scientific paper
Developers express the meaning of the domain ideas in specifically selected identifiers and comments that form the target implemented code. Software maintenance requires knowledge and understanding of the encoded ideas. This paper presents a way how to create automatically domain vocabulary. Knowledge of domain vocabulary supports the comprehension of a specific domain for later code maintenance or evolution. We present experiments conducted in two selected domains: application servers and web frameworks. Knowledge of domain terms enables easy localization of chunks of code that belong to a certain term. We consider these chunks of code as "concepts" and their placement in the code as "concept location". Application developers may also benefit from the obtained domain terms. These terms are parts of speech that characterize a certain concept. Concepts are encoded in "classes" (OO paradigm) and the obtained vocabulary of terms supports the selection and the comprehension of the class' appropriate identifiers. We measured the following software products with our tool: JBoss, JOnAS, GlassFish, Tapestry, Google Web Toolkit and Echo2.
Mezei Marek
Poruban Jaroslav
Vaclavik Peter
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