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An Exploratory Study On How Software Reuse Is Discussed In Stack Overflow, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Eman Abdullah Alomar, Jiaqian Liu, Ali Ouni, Christian D. Newman, Diego Barinas
An Exploratory Study On How Software Reuse Is Discussed In Stack Overflow, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer, Eman Abdullah Alomar, Jiaqian Liu, Ali Ouni, Christian D. Newman, Diego Barinas
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Software reuse is an important and crucial quality attribute in modern software engineering, where almost all software projects, open source or commercial, no matter small or ultra-large, source code reuse in one way or another. Although software reuse has experienced an increased adoption throughout the years with the exponentially growing number of available third-party libraries, frameworks and APIs, little knowledge exists to investigate what aspects of code reuse developers discuss. In this study, we look into bridging this gap by examining Stack Overflow to understand the challenges developers encounter when trying to reuse code. Using the Stack Overflow tags “code-reuse” …
How Do Developers Refactor Code To Improve Code Reusability?, Eman Abdullah Alomar, Philip T. Rodriguez, Jordan Bowman, Tianjia Wang, Benjamin Adepoju, Kevin Lopez, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer
How Do Developers Refactor Code To Improve Code Reusability?, Eman Abdullah Alomar, Philip T. Rodriguez, Jordan Bowman, Tianjia Wang, Benjamin Adepoju, Kevin Lopez, Christian D. Newman, Ali Ouni, Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer
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. Refactoring is the de-facto practice to optimize software health. While there has been several studies proposing refactoring strategies to optimize software design through applying design patterns and removing design defects, little is known about how developers actually refactor their code to improve its reuse. Therefore, we extract, from 1,828 open source projects, a set of refactorings which were intended to improve the software reusability. We analyze the impact of reusability refactorings on state-of-the-art reusability metrics, and we compare the distribution of reusability refactoring types, with the distribution of the remaining mainstream refactorings. Overall, we found that the distribution of …
A Software Design Pattern Based Approach To Auto Dynamic Difficulty In Video Games, Muhammad Iftekher Chowdhury
A Software Design Pattern Based Approach To Auto Dynamic Difficulty In Video Games, Muhammad Iftekher Chowdhury
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
From the point of view of skill levels, reflex speeds, hand-eye coordination, tolerance for frustration, and motivations, video game players may vary drastically. Auto dynamic difficulty (ADD) in video games refers to the technique of automatically adjusting different aspects of a video game in real time, based on the player’s ability and emergence factors in order to provide the optimal experience to users from such a large demography and increase replay value. In this thesis, we describe a collection of software design patterns for enabling auto dynamic difficulty in video games. We also discuss the benefits of a design pattern …
A Case Study In Software Reuse: The Rntds Architecture, Barry J. Stevens
A Case Study In Software Reuse: The Rntds Architecture, Barry J. Stevens
Computer Science Theses & Dissertations
It has been asserted that the most significant gains in software productivity will come from increased levels of software reuse. Some economic models for predicting savings through software reuse exist, but none are based on actual project experience. This paper surveys those models and presents the results of a case study, the Restructured Naval Tactical Data Systems (RNTDS) architecture, in the light of those models. According to the models, software reuse via the RNTDS architecture has enabled the production of fourteen major computer programs at five to twenty-one percent of the cost to create them without software reuse. Organizational characteristics …