2014 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Modular Specification and Checking of Structural Dependencies
verfasst von : Ralf Mitschke, Michael Eichberg, Mira Mezini, Alessandro Garcia, Isela Macia
Erschienen in: Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development XI
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Checking a software’s structural dependencies is a line of research on methods and tools for analyzing, modeling, and checking the conformance of source code w.r.t. specifications of its intended static structure. Existing approaches have focused on the correctness of the specification, the impact of the approaches on software quality and the expressiveness of the modeling languages. However, large specifications become unmaintainable in the event of evolution without the means to modularize such specifications. We present Vespucci, a novel approach and tool that partitions a specification of the expected and allowed dependencies into a set of cohesive slices. This facilitates modular reasoning and helps individual maintenance of each slice. Our approach is suited for modeling high-level as well as detailed low-level decisions related to the static structure and combines both in a single modeling formalism. To evaluate our approach, we conducted an extensive study spanning 9 years of the evolution of the architecture of the object-relational mapping framework Hibernate.