Induced intentional software views

Induced intentional software views

Evolving and maintaining software requires adequate documentation of its implementation. However, due to the software’s constant evolution, the documentation and implementation do not remain synchronised. Intentional software views have been proposed as a documentation technique to alleviate this problem. Creating such views is not at all a trivial task, however. In this paper, we propose to us...

Using Intentional Source-Code Views to Aid Software Maintenance

The conceptual structure of existing software systems is often implicit or non-existing in the source code. We propose the lightweight abstraction of intentional source-code views as a means of making these conceptual structures more explicit. Based on the experience gained with two case studies, we illustrate how intentional source-code views can simplify and improve software understanding, ma...

Supporting Software Maintenance and Evolution with Intentional source-code Views

We propose the abstraction of intentional source-code views to codify essential information, about the architecture and implementation of a software system, that an engineer needs to better understand, maintain and evolve the system. We report on some experiments that investigate the usefulness of intentional source-code views in a variety of software maintenance, evolution and reengineering ta...

Intentional Software

Intentional Software Product Line

Software product line engineering optimizes the development of individual systems by leveraging their common characteristics and managing their differences in a systematic way. These differences are called variabilities. We argue that it is difficult for business people to fully benefit of the SPL if it remains at the software level. The paper proposes a move towards a description of software p...