NDLI: Detecting Code Smells in Software Product Lines -- An Exploratory Study

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Abilio, R. Padilha, J. Figueiredo, E. Costa, H.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: IT Dept., Fed. Univ. of Lavras, Lavras, Brazil (Abilio, R.) \|\| Dept. of Comput. Sci., Fed. Univ. of Lavras, Lavras, Brazil (Costa, H.) \|\| Dept. of Comput. Sci., Fed. Univ. of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (Padilha, J.; Figueiredo, E.)
Abstract	Code smells are symptoms that something is wrong in the source code. They have been catalogued and investigated in several programming techniques. These techniques can be used to develop Software Product Lines (SPL). However, feature-oriented programming (FOP) is a specific technique to deal with the modularization of features in SPL. One of the most popular FOP languages is AHEAD and, as far as we are concerned, we still lack systematic studies on the categorization and detection of code smells in AHEADFOP languages-based SPL. To fill this gap, this paper extends the definitions of three traditional code smells, namely God Method, God Class, and Shotgun Surgery, to take into account FOP abstractions. We then proposed 8 new FOP measures to quantify specific characteristics of compositional approaches like AHEAD. Finally, we combine the proposed and existing measures to define 3 detection strategies for identifying the investigated code smells. To evaluate the detection strategies, we performed an exploratory study involving 26 participants. The study participants rely on metrics to identify code smells in 8 AHEAD systems. Our results show that the proposed detection strategies can be used as code smell predictor since statistical tests indicate agreement among them and the study participants.
Starting Page	433
Ending Page	438
File Size	190959
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
e-ISBN	9781479988280
DOI	10.1109/ITNG.2015.76
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-04-13
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Atmospheric measurements Code Smells Surgery Programming Inspection Particle measurements Software Detection Strategies Software Product Lines
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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