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Analyzing the use of interfaces in large OO projects

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OOPSLA '03: Companion of the 18th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications

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Using partial interfaces, i.e. interfaces that cover only a subset of the total set of published methods of a class, has several advantages, among them being an increase in understandability of the code and extended substitutability of classes in frameworks. However, analysis of large frameworks such as the Java API suggests that partial interfaces are only sparsely used. We believe that this is partly due to the fact that introducing and maintaining partial interfaces is perceived as tedious by programmers [5]. Therefore, we have created a metrics suite and tool support to assist the developer in using partial interfaces.

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Gößner JMayer PSteimann FHaddad HOmicini AWainwright RLiebrock L(2004)Interface utilization in the Java Development KitProceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing10.1145/967900.968165(1310-1315)Online publication date: 14-Mar-2004
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Analyzing the use of interfaces in large OO projects
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Abstract data types
        Frameworks
        Polymorphism

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OOPSLA '03: Companion of the 18th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications

October 2003

418 pages

ISBN:1581137516

DOI:10.1145/949344

Conference Chair:
Ron Crocker
Motorola, Inc.
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Guy L. Steele
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
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Richard P. Gabriel
Sun Microsystems

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Shah SDietrich JMcCartin C(2012)On the automated modularisation of java programs using service locatorsProceedings of the 11th international conference on Software Composition10.1007/978-3-642-30564-1_9(132-147)Online publication date: 31-May-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-30564-1_9
Steimann FMayer PMeißner AHaddad H(2006)Decoupling classes with inferred interfacesProceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Applied computing10.1145/1141277.1141604(1404-1408)Online publication date: 23-Apr-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1141277.1141604
Gößner JMayer PSteimann FHaddad HOmicini AWainwright RLiebrock L(2004)Interface utilization in the Java Development KitProceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing10.1145/967900.968165(1310-1315)Online publication date: 14-Mar-2004
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/967900.968165

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