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ASWEC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
An Empirical Study of Evolution of Inheritance in Java OSS
Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
Emal Nasseri, Steve Counsell, M. Shepperd
PPPJ
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A stochastic approach to automated design improvement
The object-oriented approach to software development facilitates and encourages programming practices that increase reusability, correctness and maintainability in code. This is a...
Mark Kent O'Keeffe, Mel Ó Cinnéide
ECOOP
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Traits: Composable Units of Behaviour
Despite the undisputed prominence of inheritance as the fundamental reuse mechanism in object-oriented programming languages, the main variants — single inheritance, multiple inh...
Nathanael Schärli, Stéphane Ducasse, O...
OOPSLA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Removing duplication from java.io: a case study using traits
Code duplication is a serious problem with no easy solution, even in industrial-strength code. Single inheritance cannot provide for effective code reuse in all situations, and s...
Emerson R. Murphy-Hill, Philip J. Quitslund, Andre...