DESIGN RULE SPACES AND ARCHITECTURE ROOT DETECTION

摘要

Errors in software may be detected via the use of design rule spaces and architecture root detection. Design rule spaces may reveal multiple overlapping modular structures of a software system, and reveal structural relations among error-prone files and structural problems contributing to error-proneness. Root detection may extract a few groups of architecturally connected files, which may be connected through problematic architecture relations that propagate errors among these files, and thus influence system error-proneness. The root detector may locate the core architecturally connected file groups that contribute to the error-proneness of a system. The root detection process may, beginning with a set of error-prone files, search and link other files that are architecturally related. The output of the root detection process may be a set of design rule spaces ordered by the number of error-prone contained therein.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
analyzing, via a processor, a software architecture utilizing a dependency graph comprising vertices indicative of a plurality of files, wherein:
edges of the dependency graph are indicative of relationships between files of the plurality of files;at least one of the relationships between the files of the plurality of files is indicative of a primary relation;the dependency graph is indicative of a design rule hierarchy based on at least one primary relation; determining, based on the analyzing, an error proneness of at least one file of the plurality of files; and visually rendering an indication of the error proneness.