Title: Towards a
Principle-based Classification of Structural Design Smells
Abstract: Fred
Brooks in his book "The Mythical Man Month" describes how the
inherent properties of software (i.e. complexity, conformity, changeability,
and invisibility) make its design an "essential" difficulty. Good
design practices are fundamental requisites to address this difficulty. One
such good practice is that a software designer should be aware of and address
"design smells" that can manifest as a result of his design
decisions. However, our study of the vast literature on object-oriented design
smells reveals the lack of an effective organization of smells that could
better guide a designer in understanding and addressing potential issues in his
design. In order to address this gap, we have adopted a novel approach to
classify and catalog a number of recurring structural design smells based on
how they violate key object oriented (OO) design principles. To evaluate the
usefulness of our design smell catalog, we first asked Siemens CT DC AA
architects to use it to identify design smells in their projects, and later
elicited feedback from them about their experience. The feedback received
indicates that these architects found the catalog to be very useful. In this
paper, we present our catalog, classification, and naming scheme for design
smells and also highlight several interesting observations and insights that
result from our work.
Cite as: S.G. Ganesh, Tushar Sharma, Girish Suryanarayana,
“Towards a Principle-based Classification of Structural Design Smells”, Journal
of Object Technology, Volume 12, no. 2 (June 2013), pp. 1:1-29,
doi:10.5381/jot.2013.12.2.a1.
If you are interested to see the information discussed in
the above paper in the form of a presentation, it could be downloaded
from here.
A nice poster on design smell classification can be downloaded from here.
Abstract: Fred
Brooks in his book "The Mythical Man Month" describes how the
inherent properties of software (i.e. complexity, conformity, changeability,
and invisibility) make its design an "essential" difficulty. Good
design practices are fundamental requisites to address this difficulty. One
such good practice is that a software designer should be aware of and address
"design smells" that can manifest as a result of his design
decisions. However, our study of the vast literature on object-oriented design
smells reveals the lack of an effective organization of smells that could
better guide a designer in understanding and addressing potential issues in his
design. In order to address this gap, we have adopted a novel approach to
classify and catalog a number of recurring structural design smells based on
how they violate key object oriented (OO) design principles. To evaluate the
usefulness of our design smell catalog, we first asked Siemens CT DC AA
architects to use it to identify design smells in their projects, and later
elicited feedback from them about their experience. The feedback received
indicates that these architects found the catalog to be very useful. In this
paper, we present our catalog, classification, and naming scheme for design
smells and also highlight several interesting observations and insights that
result from our work.
Cite as: S.G. Ganesh, Tushar Sharma, Girish Suryanarayana,
“Towards a Principle-based Classification of Structural Design Smells”, Journal
of Object Technology, Volume 12, no. 2 (June 2013), pp. 1:1-29,
doi:10.5381/jot.2013.12.2.a1.
If you are interested to see the information discussed in
the above paper in the form of a presentation, it could be downloaded
from here.
A nice poster on design smell classification can be downloaded from here.
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