21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'05)
Requirements Guided Dynamic Software Clustering
Budapest, Hungary
September 25-September 30
ISBN: 0-7695-2368-4
In this paper, we propose a requirements guided dynamic approach to address software clustering which aims at providing the logically meaningful and high-level decompositions of large and complex systems. In our approach, the hierarchical structure of functional requirements are constructed by a text document clustering technique named Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering (HAC) as a high-level skeleton to facilitate the further decomposition of source code through dynamic analysis. We also perform an experimental study based on a GNU system and present the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the experimental results.
Index Terms:
software clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering, program comprehension
Citation:
Wei Zhao, Lu Zhang, Hong Mei, Jiasu Sun, "Requirements Guided Dynamic Software Clustering," icsm, pp.605-608, 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'05), 2005