Strengthen and Support the Maintenance of Object-Oriented Software
Inheritance is one of the most common features of object oriented languages, and has been widely applied to develop large and complex software system. However, designing a suitable inheritance hierarchy, involving redundant inheritance, is a difficult task and easily suffers from name-confliction an...
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doaj-cb204c59206143089c9983b569e10bad2021-08-02T08:03:48ZengAustralasian Association for Information SystemsAustralasian Journal of Information Systems1449-86181449-86181999-11-017110.3127/ajis.v7i1.286246Strengthen and Support the Maintenance of Object-Oriented SoftwareMing-Chi LeeTimothy ShihTeh-Sheng HuangInheritance is one of the most common features of object oriented languages, and has been widely applied to develop large and complex software system. However, designing a suitable inheritance hierarchy, involving redundant inheritance, is a difficult task and easily suffers from name-confliction and repeated inheritance which are error-prone and difficult to test. In this paper, we explain how redundant inheritance makes object-oriented programs difficult to test and maintain, and we give a concrete example of the problems that arise. We show that the difficulty lies in the fact that we lack an effective detection tool suited for work with inheritance problems. Therefore, a formal checking mechanism is proposed to detect and resolve redundant inheritance. Furthermore, this checking mechanism can be easily incorporated with object-oriented CASE tool to enhance software quality.http://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/view/286object orientationinheritanceredundancyCASEquality |
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Ming-Chi Lee Timothy Shih Teh-Sheng Huang Strengthen and Support the Maintenance of Object-Oriented Software Australasian Journal of Information Systems object orientation inheritance redundancy CASE quality |
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Strengthen and Support the Maintenance of Object-Oriented Software |
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Strengthen and Support the Maintenance of Object-Oriented Software |
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Strengthen and Support the Maintenance of Object-Oriented Software |
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Strengthen and Support the Maintenance of Object-Oriented Software |
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Strengthen and Support the Maintenance of Object-Oriented Software |
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strengthen and support the maintenance of object-oriented software |
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Australasian Association for Information Systems |
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Australasian Journal of Information Systems |
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1449-8618 1449-8618 |
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1999-11-01 |
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Inheritance is one of the most common features of object oriented languages, and has been widely applied to develop large and complex software system. However, designing a suitable inheritance hierarchy, involving redundant inheritance, is a difficult task and easily suffers from name-confliction and repeated inheritance which are error-prone and difficult to test. In this paper, we explain how redundant inheritance makes object-oriented programs difficult to test and maintain, and we give a concrete example of the problems that arise. We show that the difficulty lies in the fact that we lack an effective detection tool suited for work with inheritance problems. Therefore, a formal checking mechanism is proposed to detect and resolve redundant inheritance. Furthermore, this checking mechanism can be easily incorporated with object-oriented CASE tool to enhance software quality. |
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object orientation inheritance redundancy CASE quality |
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http://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/view/286 |
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