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We create a simple example is to illustrate our PLA recovery approach. Next, we present two fictitious variants. Variant_1 was initially developed from scratch and then Variant_2 was developed by reusing the former variant using opportunistic reuse. The approach steps are presented in the following subsections.
- Variant_1 source code analysis and extraction
- Variant_2 source code analysis and extraction
- Running the PLAR-tool
We implemented a class called Class_A that calls the method foo() implemented by Class_B}.
package package_X;
public class Class_A {
private int test_1;
public Class_A(Class_B B){
test_1 = B.foo();
}
}Next, we implemented the Class_B constructor and the method foo(). We grouped classes Class_A and Class_B in the package_X.
package package_X;
public class Class_B {
public Class_B(){}
int foo(){
return 0;
}
}We extract the information in packages and classes. Follow the steps described in this guideline.
Next, we describe the *.tgf file with Variant_1 package information:
1 package_X
#Visual representation of the extracted package information created with Stan4J:
Next, we describe the *.tgf file with Variant_1 class information:
1 Class_A
2 Class_B
#
1 2 2Visual representation of the extracted class information created with Stan4J:
Following, we present the Variant_2 source code. Class_B constructor calls the zoo() method implemented by Class_C.
package package_X;
import package_Y.*;
public class Class_B {
private int test_2;
public Class_B(Class_C C){
test_2 = C.zoo();
}
int foo(){
return 0;
}
}Next, we describe Variant_2 implementation of Class_C. We organised the development project in two packages, package_X and package_Y.
package package_Y;
public class Class_C {
public int zoo(){
return 1; }
}We extract the information in packages and classes. Follow the steps described in this guideline.
Next, we describe the *.tgf file with Variant_2 package information:
1 package_X
2 package_Y
#
1 2 2Visual representation of the extracted package information created with Stan4J:
Next, we describe the *.tgf file with Variant_2 class information:
1 Class_B
2 Class_C
#
1 2 1Visual representation of the extracted class information created with Stan4J:
Run the PLAR-tool executable. Follow the steps described in this guideline. Following, we present the recovered information both in packages and classes analysis.
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