A theoretical and empirical study of EFSM dependence.
Conference paper
Androutsopoulos, K., Gold, N., Harman, M., Li, Z. and Tratt, L. 2009. A theoretical and empirical study of EFSM dependence. IEEE Computer Society. pp. 287-296 https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2009.5306309
Type | Conference paper |
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Title | A theoretical and empirical study of EFSM dependence. |
Authors | Androutsopoulos, K., Gold, N., Harman, M., Li, Z. and Tratt, L. |
Abstract | Dependence analysis underpins many activities in software maintenance such as comprehension and impact analysis. As a result, dependence has been studied widely for programming languages, notably through work on program slicing. However, there is comparatively little work on dependence analysis at the model level and hitherto, no empirical studies. We introduce a slicing tool for extended finite state machines (EFSMs) and use the tool to gather empirical results on several forms of dependence found in ten EFSMs, including well-known benchmarks in addition to real-world EFSM models. We investigate the statistical properties of dependence using statistical tests for correlation and formalize and prove four of the empirical findings arising from our empirical study. The paper thus provides the maintainer with both empirical data and foundational theoretical results concerning dependence in EFSM models. |
Page range | 287-296 |
Proceedings Title | Software Maintenance, 2009. ICSM 2009. IEEE International Conference |
ISSN | 1063-6773 |
Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 28 May 2010 |
Output status | Published |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSM.2009.5306309 |
Language | English |
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