A view matcher for reusing Smalltalk classes
Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll, Christine M. Sweeney · 1991
A prime attraction of object-oriented programming lan~ages M the posslbdit~of reusing code, We examme the support provided by Smalltalk to pro-~ammers attemptin to incorporate an existing class f mto a new.design, .ocussing on issues of usage examples, object-spec~lc analysis, how-to-use-it information, and ob"ect connections.We then describe a i" View Matcher or reuse, a tool that documents reusable classes through a set of coordinated views onto concrete usage examples;in three scenarios, we illustrate how the tool addresses the issues raised in our analysis of reuse in Smalltallc.