Dependence Anti Patterns
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Binkley, David; Gold, Nicolas; Harman, Mark; Li, Zheng; Mahdavi, Kiarash; Wegener, Joachim
- Source
- 2008 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering - Workshops Automated Software Engineering - Workshops, 2008. ASE Workshops 2008. 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on. :25-34 Sep, 2008
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Visualization
Software quality
Educational institutions
Software maintenance
Computer science
Pattern analysis
Software measurement
Information analysis
Gold
Production systems
- Language
- ISSN
- 2151-0830
2151-0849
A Dependence Anti Pattern is a dependence structure that may indicate potential problems for on-going software maintenance and evolution. Dependence anti patterns are not structures that must always be avoided. Rather, they denote warnings that should be investigated. This paper defines a set of dependence anti patterns and presents a series of case studies that show how these patterns can be identified using techniques for dependence analysis and visualization. The paper reports the results of this analysis on six real world programs, two of which are open source and four of which are part of production code in use with Daimler.