Class Responsibility Assignment as Fuzzy Constraint Satisfaction

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Abstract

We formulate the class responsibility assignment (CRA) problem as the fuzzy constraint satisfaction problem (FCSP) for automating CRA of high quality. Responsibilities are contracts or obligations of objects that they should assume, by aligning them to classes appropriately, quality designs realize. Typical conditions of a desirable design are having a low coupling between highly cohesive classes. However, because of a trade-off among such conditions, solutions that satisfy the conditions moderately are desired, and computer assistance is needed. Additionally, if we have an initial assignment, the improved one by our technique should keep the original assignment as much as possible because it involves with the intention of human designers. We represent such conditions as fuzzy constraints, and formulate CRA as FCSP. That enables us to apply common FCSP solvers to the problem and to derive solution representing a CRA. The conducted preliminary evaluation indicates the effectiveness of our technique.

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This work builds on

• Technical Meeting クラス責務割り当て問題へのファジィ制約充足問題の適用 電子情報通信学会技術研究報告, 2013

Continued in

• Domestic Journal クラス責務割当てのファジィ制約充足問題としての定式化 情報処理学会論文誌, 2017

BibTeX

@inproceedings{hayashi-iwesep2014,
    author = {Shinpei Hayashi and Takuto Yanagida and Motoshi Saeki and Hidenori Mimura},
    title = {Class Responsibility Assignment as Fuzzy Constraint Satisfaction},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice},
    pages = {19--24},
    doi = {10.1109/IWESEP.2014.13},
    year = 2014,
}