Evolving Software Quality Knowledge

Daniel Speicher

2011

Abstract

Instead of having a system of rigid quality criteria, we suggest to co-evolve the knowledge about good and bad design with the code. Based on an infrastructure that represents object-oriented code in a logic factbase, we describe how to defined code critiques (”bad smells”) and well established structures (”design pattern”) and how to make the bad smells aware of the design pattern. A case study on ArgoUML shows that it is more effective to find unjustified warnings by taking developers knowledge into account then by structural criteria.

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in Harvard Style

Speicher D. (2011). Evolving Software Quality Knowledge . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Knowledge - Volume 1: SKY, (IC3K 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-82-9, pages 36-47. DOI: 10.5220/0003699100360047


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sky11,
author={Daniel Speicher},
title={Evolving Software Quality Knowledge},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Knowledge - Volume 1: SKY, (IC3K 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={36-47},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003699100360047},
isbn={978-989-8425-82-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Software Knowledge - Volume 1: SKY, (IC3K 2011)
TI - Evolving Software Quality Knowledge
SN - 978-989-8425-82-9
AU - Speicher D.
PY - 2011
SP - 36
EP - 47
DO - 10.5220/0003699100360047