Poster: A Taxonomy of how Method Stereotypes Change
Michael John Decker, Christian D. Newman, Natalia Dragan, Michael L. Collard, Jonathan I. Maletic, Nicholas A. Kraft · International Conference on Software Engineering · 2018
The role of a well-designed method should not change frequently or significantly over its lifetime. As such, changes to the role of a method can be an indicator of design improvement or degradation. To measure this, we use method stereotypes. Method stereotypes provide a high-level description of a method's behavior and role; giving insight into how a method interacts with its environment and carries out tasks. When a method's stereotype changes, so has its role. This work presents a taxonomy of how method stereotypes change and why the categories of changes are significant.