NDLI: Building extensions for applications: Towards the understanding of extension possibilities

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Aly, M. Charfi, A. Mezini, M.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Appl. Res., SAP AG, Darmstadt, Germany (Aly, M.; Charfi, A.) \|\| Software Technol. Group, Tech. Univ. Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany (Mezini, M.)
Abstract	Software extensions enable developers to introduce new features to a software system for supporting new requirements. In order for a developer to build an extension for a certain software system, the developer has to understand what extension possibilities exist, which software artifacts provide these possibilities, the constraints and dependencies between the extensible software artifacts, and how to correctly implement an extension. Building extensions for multilayered applications can be very challenging. For example, a simple user interface extension in a business application can require a developer to consider extensible artifacts from underlying user interfaces, business processes, databases, and code. In commercial applications, extension developers can depend on classical means like APIs, frameworks, documentation, tutorials, and example code provided by the software provider to understand the extension possibilities and how to successfully implement, run, and deploy an extension. For complex multilayered applications, relying on such classical means can be very hard and time-consuming for the extension developers. In IDEs, various program comprehension tools and approaches have helped developers in carrying out development tasks. However, most of the tools focus on the code level, lack the support for multilayered applications, and do not particularly focus on extensibility. In this paper we investigate the resources and methods that extension developers currently depend on for implementing extensions and we evaluate their effectiveness in a study of extension developers performing extension development tasks for a complex business application. Based on the results of our study, we identify the problems and challenges that face extension developers and we propose requirements that program comprehension tools should support to aid extension developers.
Starting Page	182
Ending Page	191
File Size	1436619
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467330923
ISSN	10636897
DOI	10.1109/ICPC.2013.6613846
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-05-20
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Databases Buildings Tutorials User interfaces Software systems Business
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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