A Seeded Search for the Modularisation of Sequential Software Versions.
Mahir Arzoky, Stephen Swift, Allan Tucker, James Cain · The Journal of Object Technology · 2012
Software module clustering is the process of partitioning the structure of the software system using low-level dependencies in the source code in order to understand and improve the system's structure.A software clustering tool, Munch, was used to modularise sequential source code software check-ins to assess the degree of major changes.It uses a searchbased software engineering technique.This paper employs a seeding technique, based on results from previous modularisations, to speed up the process and reduce the running time.In order to evaluate the efficiency of the modularisation we conducted a number of experiments on our uniquely large and comprehensive real-world dataset.The results of the experiments present strong evidence to support the seeding strategy.