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Object-oriented19 programming has many advantages over the non-objected oriented, such as information hiding, inheritance, polymorphism, and dynamic binding. While conventional languages implement information hiding by procedure20 and abstract data type, OO programming languages extend information hiding by class and object, which allows users only to see what a class lets them see from the outside of a class. When the implementation of a class changes, if the corresponding public methods and their variables remain the same, the changes are limited within the class only. By reducing the degree of interconnectedness between separate elements of a software system, the principle of information hiding helps in the development of reliable software [31]. In conventional languages, abstract data types can be good candidates as the units to be reused. However, there are two problems to this approach. First, the existing abstract data types are not quite right for new use and require at least some modification. Second, almost all abstract data type definitions are independent and at the same level, which often makes it impossible to structure a program to fit the problem space that the program addresses [40]. On the other hand, inheritance in OO languages is a reasonable solution to these two problems. By inheriting, classes can be organized into a hierarchical inheritance tree.
Hereafter, we use OO as the abbreviation for Object-Oriented.
The terms “procedure” and “function” are used interchangeably.
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Wong, W.E., Li, J. (2003). Use of Visualization to Aid Object-Oriented Redesign. In: Zhang, K. (eds) Software Visualization. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 734. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0457-3_13
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