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Mining Software Components from Object-Oriented APIs

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Software Reuse for Dynamic Systems in the Cloud and Beyond (ICSR 2015)

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Object-oriented Application Programing Interfaces (APIs) support software reuse by providing pre-implemented functionalities. Due to the huge number of included classes, reusing and understanding large APIs is a complex task. Otherwise, software components are admitted to be more reusable and understandable entities than object-oriented ones. Thus, in this paper, we propose an approach for reengineering object- oriented APIs into component-based ones. We mine components as a group of classes based on the frequency they are used together and their ability to form a quality-centric component. To validate our approach, we experimented on 100 Java applications that used Android APIs.

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  1. UMR CNRS 5506, LIRMM, University of Montpellier II, Montpellier, France

    Anas Shatnawi, Abdelhak Seriai & Zakarea Al-Shara

  2. DIRO, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

    Houari Sahraoui

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  1. Institut für Softwaretechnik und Fahrzeuginformatik, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Mühlenpfordtstr. 23, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany

    Ina Schaefer

  2. Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece

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Shatnawi, A., Seriai, A., Sahraoui, H., Al-Shara, Z. (2014). Mining Software Components from Object-Oriented APIs. In: Schaefer, I., Stamelos, I. (eds) Software Reuse for Dynamic Systems in the Cloud and Beyond. ICSR 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8919. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14130-5_23

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