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Before making modifications to an unfamiliar software system, the new programmer needs to gain some knowledge about that system. The core classes that constitute the system architecture can reveal important structural properties of the system. Hence these core classes can be used to catch an initial glimpse of the system during initial stages of program comprehension. We propose an efficient technique that pinpoints the core architecture classes of the system with the help of our own conceived variant of a dynamic coupling metric. The results are compared with the already performed experiments of similar nature on the same software system. There is a noticeable improvement in the performance with our approach while the precision and recall contest with the best results obtained in other analogous experiments.
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Kamran, M., Azam, F., Khanum, A. (2013). Discovering Core Architecture Classes to Assist Initial Program Comprehension. In: Lu, W., Cai, G., Liu, W., Xing, W. (eds) Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Information Technology and Software Engineering. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 211. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34522-7_1
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