Empirical study of programming to an interface

Verhaeghe, Benoît, Fuhrman, Christopher, Anquetil, Nicolas, Guerrouj, Latifa and Ducasse, Stéphane. 2019. « Empirical study of programming to an interface ». In 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2019) (San Diego, CA, USA, Nov. 11-15 2019) pp. 847-850. IEEE.
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Abstract

A popular recommendation to programmers in object-oriented software is to “program to an interface, not an implementation” (PTI). Expected benefits include increased simplicity from abstraction, decreased dependency on implementations, and higher flexibility. Yet, interfaces must be immutable, excessive class hierarchies can be a form of complexity, and “speculative generality” is a known code smell. To advance the empirical knowledge of PTI, we conducted an empirical investigation that involves 126 Java projects on GitHub, aiming to measuring the decreased dependency benefits (in terms of cochange).

Item Type:	Conference proceeding
Professor:	Professor Fuhrman, Christopher Guerrouj, Latifa
Affiliation:	Génie logiciel et des technologies de l'information, Génie logiciel et des technologies de l'information
Date Deposited:	18 Sep 2019 18:49
Last Modified:	28 Apr 2020 16:16
URI:	https://espace2.etsmtl.ca/id/eprint/19359

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