To use a framework, developers need to understand its building blocks. In this paper, we present a clustering tech- nique that employs usage data from framework instantia- tions as examples to produce an overview of a framework's main building blocks as seen from a user's perspective. The evaluation of the approach by two case studies shows that the automatically generated building blocks are similar to a manually defined overview created by framework experts, even in cases where only few framework instantiations are available.
Citation:
Thorsten Sch?fer, Ivica Aracic, Matthias Merz, Mira Mezini, Klaus Ostermann, "Clustering for Generating Framework Top-Level Views," wcre, pp.239-248, 14th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2007), 2007