Moldable Tools for Object-Oriented Development

Object-oriented programming aims to facilitate navigation between domain concepts and the code that addresses those domains by enabling developers to directly model those domain concepts in the code. To make informed decisions developers then formulate detailed and domainspecific questions about their systems in terms of domain concepts, and use tools to explore available information and answer those questions. Development tools however focus mainly on object-oriented idioms and do not expose or exploit domain concepts constructed on top of object-oriented programming idioms. Analysis tools are typically not tightly integrated with development tools. This has a negative effect on program comprehension, increasing the effort and the time for obtaining answers. To improve program comprehension we propose to better integrate domain concepts and program comprehension tools into the development environment through moldable tools. Moldable tools are development tools that ? Chiş A., Gı̂rba T., Kubelka J., Nierstrasz O., Reichhart S., Syrel A. (2017) Moldable Tools for Object-Oriented Development. In: Mazzara M., Meyer B. (eds) Present and Ulterior Software Engineering. Springer, Cham DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67425-4 6 Andrei Chiş Software Composition Group, University of Bern, Switzerland, scg.unibe.ch Tudor Gı̂rba feenk.com, Switzerland Juraj Kubelka PLEIAD Laboratory, University of Chile, Chile, pleiad.cl Oscar Nierstrasz Software Composition Group, University of Bern, Switzerland, scg.unibe.ch Stefan Reichhart [email protected], Switzerland Aliaksei Syrel Software Composition Group, University of Bern, Switzerland, scg.unibe.ch