Hidden Dependencies in Program Comprehension and Change Propagation
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Large software systems are difficult to understand and maintain. Program dependency analysis plays a key role in both understanding and maintenance. This paper discusses hidden dependencies among software components that make both understanding and maintenance hard. Hidden dependency is a relationship between two seemingly independent components and it is caused by a data flow inside of a third software components. The paper uses Abstract System Dependence Graphs to define hidden dependencies. It discusses the impact of hidden dependencies on the process of change propagation and also discusses an algorithm that warns about possible presence of hidden dependencies.
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