An analysis of anti-micro-patterns effects on fault-proneness in large Java systems

Giuseppe Destefanis; Roberto Tonelli; Giulio Concas; Michele Marchesi

doi:10.1145/2245276.2231972

An analysis of anti-micro-patterns effects on fault-proneness in large Java systems

Giuseppe Destefanis, Roberto Tonelli, Giulio Concas, Michele Marchesi

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Abstract

Micro patterns are similar to design patterns, but are at a lower level of abstraction, closer to the implementation. Anti patterns are micro patterns not respecting the prescriptions of good Object Oriented programming practices. In this paper, we use the definitions introduced by Arcelli and Maggioni [3] in order to study the evolution of five particular micro patterns (anti patterns) in different releases of the Eclipse and NetBeans systems, and the correlations between anti patterns and faults. Our analysis confirms previous findings regarding the high coverage of micro patterns onto the system classes, and show that anti patterns not only represent bad Object Oriented programming practices, but may also be associated to the production of lower quality software, since they present a fault proneness significantly enhanced.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2012
Pages	1251-1253
Number of pages	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2245276.2231972
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2012 - Trento, Italy Duration: 26 Mar 2012 → 30 Mar 2012

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Conference	27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2012
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Trento
Period	26/03/12 → 30/03/12

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anti patterns
metrics
micro patterns
object-oriented programming
software faults

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