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Learning OOP for novice learners remains a major problem for many students at University level. Students still find OOP concepts difficult to grasp. They are not able to grasp the easiest OOP topic and they are asked to move to another topic. Therefore, this paper illustrates a concept which was tested with 10 students to ease OOP learning process for novice learners. The approach mainly consists...
This paper presents the results of a brief survey of tools for increasing the level of automation of service composition. Our main emphasis in this paper is on tools for building compound services. Tools for both non-semantic and semantic services are considered.
The C preprocessor is often used in practice to implement variability in software product lines. Using #ifdef statements provokes problems such as obfuscated source code, yet they will still be used in practice at least in the medium-term future. With CIDE, we demonstrate a tool to improve understanding and maintaining code that contains #ifdef statements by visualizing them with colors and providing...
This paper presents the main features of ConAn, a tool supporting an approach to find scattered and tangled class members in OO systems and to group them in concerns. The recovered information is useful for refactoring/migration tasks, such as towards Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP).
Tools for design pattern detection (DPD) can ease program comprehension, helping programmers understand the design and intention of certain parts of a system's implementation. Many tools have been proposed in the past. However, the many different output formats used by the tools make it difficult to compare their results and to improve their accuracy and performance through data fusion. In addition,...
Efficient requirements engineering activities are essential in order to develop software systems that properly satisfy end-user needs. End-users lack knowledge about requirements engineering techniques or computation in general, and it is very important that they actively participate in the requirements elicitation process because they are the "owners" of the problem. In this paper, we present...
Software product lines aim at reducing time-to-market and increasing quality through extensive reuse. Effective tool support is essential in product line engineering. Tools need to be flexible and adaptable to support specific needs of engineers in different domains and development contexts. As product lines cover both business and technical aspects, tools need to meet the needs of both business-oriented...
At the first International Workshop on Advanced Software Development Tools and Techniques, four emerging trends in academic tool building were evident. First, tools are increasingly constructed on the basis of external code, reusing, for instance, existing frameworks and integrated development environments. Second, researchers often choose dynamic languages such as Smalltalk to implement prototype...
We report on an exploratory study we conducted to investigate what kind of diagrammatic tool support, if any, is desired by programmers. The study involved 19 professional programmers working at three different companies. We found that the study participants desire a wide range of information content in diagrams, which would change depending upon the particular context of use. Meeting these needs...
Tool developers are facing high expectations regarding the capabilities and usability of software engineering tools. Users expect tools which are tailored to their specific needs and integrated in their environment. This increases the complexity of tools and makes their customization more difficult, although numerous mechanisms supporting adaptability and extensibility are available. In this experience...
Hidden functionality in software is a big problem, because we cannot be sure that the software does not contain malicious code. We conducted an experiment where we studied the relationship between architecture constructs, dynamic behavior and security vulnerabilities. We also studied to what extent architecture analysis tools can assist in detecting security vulnerabilities that are caused by architecture...
Nowadays, a typical software development process involves many developers which participate in the development process by using a wide variety of development tools. As a consequence, the data representing the project as a whole is distributed over different development tools. For the purpose of consistency, maintainability, and traceability it is an essential task to be aware of the relationships...
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