Discovering Organizational Aspects from the Source Code History Log during the Product Line Planning Phase--A Case Study

Author(s):  
Dharmalingam Ganesan ◽  
Dirk Muthig ◽  
Jens Knodel ◽  
Kentaro Yoshimura
2008 ◽  
Vol 81 (6) ◽  
pp. 868-882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad A. Noor ◽  
Rick Rabiser ◽  
Paul Grünbacher

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 4491-4519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurélien Gallice ◽  
Mathias Bavay ◽  
Tristan Brauchli ◽  
Francesco Comola ◽  
Michael Lehning ◽  
...  

Abstract. Climate change is expected to strongly impact the hydrological and thermal regimes of Alpine rivers within the coming decades. In this context, the development of hydrological models accounting for the specific dynamics of Alpine catchments appears as one of the promising approaches to reduce our uncertainty of future mountain hydrology. This paper describes the improvements brought to StreamFlow, an existing model for hydrological and stream temperature prediction built as an external extension to the physically based snow model Alpine3D. StreamFlow's source code has been entirely written anew, taking advantage of object-oriented programming to significantly improve its structure and ease the implementation of future developments. The source code is now publicly available online, along with a complete documentation. A special emphasis has been put on modularity during the re-implementation of StreamFlow, so that many model aspects can be represented using different alternatives. For example, several options are now available to model the advection of water within the stream. This allows for an easy and fast comparison between different approaches and helps in defining more reliable uncertainty estimates of the model forecasts. In particular, a case study in a Swiss Alpine catchment reveals that the stream temperature predictions are particularly sensitive to the approach used to model the temperature of subsurface flow, a fact which has been poorly reported in the literature to date. Based on the case study, StreamFlow is shown to reproduce hourly mean discharge with a Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE) of 0.82 and hourly mean temperature with a NSE of 0.78.


2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (07) ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Mrs. Vani Dave ◽  
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Mr Sanjeev Kumar shukla ◽  

In this study, we propose a method to quickly search for similar source files for a given source file as a method to examine the origin of reused code. By outputting not only the same contents but also similar contents, it corresponds to the source file that has been changed during reuse. In addition, locality-sensitive hashing is used to search from a large number of source files, enabling fast search. By this method, it is possible to know the origin of the reused code. A case study was conducted on a library that is being reused written in C language. Some of the changes were unique to the project, and some were no longer consistent with the source files. As a result, it was possible to detect the source files that were reused from among the 200 projects with 92% accuracy. In addition, when we measured the execution time of the search using 4 files, the search was completed within 1 second for each file.


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Klaus Rechert ◽  
Jurek Oberhauser ◽  
Rafael Gieschke

Software and in particular source code became an important component of scientific publications and henceforth is now subject of research data management.  Maintaining source code such that it remains a usable and a valuable scientific contribution is and remains a huge task. Not all code contributions can be actively maintained forever. Eventually, there will be a significant backlog of legacy source-code. In this article we analyse the requirements for applying the concept of long-term reusability to source code. We use simple case study to identify gaps and provide a technical infrastructure based on emulator to support automated builds of historic software in form of source code.  


2015 ◽  
Vol 77 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahliza A. Halim ◽  
Dayang N. A. Jawawi ◽  
Noraini Ibrahim ◽  
M. Zulkifli M. Zaki ◽  
Safaai Deris

Software Product Line (SPL) is an effective approach in software reuse in which core assets can be shared among the members of the product line with an explicit treatment of variability. Core assets, which are developed for reuse in domain engineering, are selected for product specific derivation in application engineering. Decision making support during product derivation is crucial to assist in making multiple decisions during product specific derivation. Multiple decisions are to be resolved at the architectural level as well as the detailed design level, address the need for assisting the decision making process during core asset derivation. Architectural level decision making is based on imprecise, uncertain and subjective nature of stakeholder for making architectural selection based on non- functional requirements (NFR). Furthermore, detail design level involves the selection of suitable features which have the rationale behind each decision. The rationale for the selection, if not documented properly, will also result in loss of tacit knowledge. Therefore, a multi-attribute architecture design decision technique is proposed to overcome the above mentioned problem. The technique combines Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) with lightweight architecture design decision documentation to support the decision making during core asset derivation. We demonstrate our approach using the case study of Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR). The case study implementation shows showed that the proposed technique supports software engineer in the process of decision making at the architecture and detail design levels.


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