Observations on the evolution of an industrial OO framework
Michael Mattsson, Jan Bosch · 1999
An approach for identifying potential modules for restructuring in large software systems using product release history is adapted to better suit object-oriented frameworks and is applied to an industrial black-box framework product in the telecommunication domain. Our study shows that using historical information as a way of identifying structural shortcomings in an object-oriented system is viable and useful. The study thereby strengthens the approach and demonstrates that the approach is adaptable and useful for object-oriented systems. The usefulness of the original approach has been validated through this study too.