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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Dependability and Complex Systems DepCoS-RELCOMEX. June 30 – July 4, 2014, Brunów, Poland pp 243–254Cite as

Impact of Selected Java Idioms on Source Code Maintainability – Empirical Study

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Source code maintainability is a desired software feature. It can be achieved in many different ways. For example, software engineers recommend the use of patterns as commonly known and proven quality solutions to existing problems. Patterns are usually defined at three basic granularity levels, and are classified as architectural, design, and programming patterns (idioms). The paper presents the results of an experiment conducted at Wroclaw University of Technology which aimed at checking the influence of Java idioms on source code maintainability. The obtained results confirmed that using idioms is a beneficial practice, especially in corrective maintenance.

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  1. Institute of Informatics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Bogumiła Hnatkowska & Anna Jaszczak

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  1. Institute of Computer Engineering Control and Robotics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Wojciech Zamojski

  2. Institute of Computer Engineering Control and Robotics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Jacek Mazurkiewicz

  3. Institute of Computer Engineering Control and Robotics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Jarosław Sugier

  4. Institute of Computer Engineering Control and Robotics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

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    Janusz Kacprzyk

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Hnatkowska, B., Jaszczak, A. (2014). Impact of Selected Java Idioms on Source Code Maintainability – Empirical Study. In: Zamojski, W., Mazurkiewicz, J., Sugier, J., Walkowiak, T., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Dependability and Complex Systems DepCoS-RELCOMEX. June 30 – July 4, 2014, Brunów, Poland. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 286. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07013-1_23

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