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Studying Versioning Information to Understand Inheritance Hierarchy Changes
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Filip Van Rysselberghe, Serge Demeyer, "Studying Versioning Information to Understand Inheritance Hierarchy Changes," Mining Software Repositories, International Workshop on, pp. 16, Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'07:ICSE Workshops 2007), 2007.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MSR.2007.30,
author = {Filip Van Rysselberghe and Serge Demeyer},
title = {Studying Versioning Information to Understand Inheritance Hierarchy Changes},
journal ={Mining Software Repositories, International Workshop on},
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year = {2007},
isbn = {0-7695-2950-X},
pages = {16},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MSR.2007.30},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
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Filip Van Rysselberghe, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Serge Demeyer, University of Antwerp, Belgium
With the widespread adoption of object-oriented programming, changing the inheritance hierarchy became an inherent part of today?s software maintenance activities. Unfortunately, little is known about the "state-of-thepractice" with respect to changing an application?s inheritance hierarchy, and consequently we do not know how the change process can be improved. In this paper, we report on a study of the hierarchy changes stored in a versioning system to explore the answers to three research questions: (1) why are hierarchy changes made? (2) what kind of hierarchy changes are made? (3) what is the impact of these changes? Based on the results of this study, we formulate 7 hypotheses which should be investigated further to make conclusive interpretations on how hierarchy changes fit in the actual change process.
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Filip Van Rysselberghe, Serge Demeyer, "Studying Versioning Information to Understand Inheritance Hierarchy Changes," msr, pp.16, Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'07:ICSE Workshops 2007), 2007
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