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A Coherent Family of Analyzable Graph Representations
for Object-Oriented Software
Technical Report OSU-CISRC-11/96-TR60, The Ohio State University
November 1996
Mary Jean Harrold and Gregg Rothermel
Abstract
Many software engineering tools and techniques
rely on graphical representations of software,
such as control flow graphs, program dependence
graphs, or system dependence graphs.
To apply these tools and techniques to
object-oriented software, we cannot necessarily use existing
graphical representations of procedural software.
Representations of object-oriented software,
like those for procedural software, must depict
individual procedures (methods) and entire programs;
however, they must also depict classes and their
interactions, and account for the effects
of inheritance, polymorphism, and aggregation.
These representations
should facilitate the use of existing program
analysis tools and techniques, rather than
requiring us to create new techniques.
A system for constructing and managing
these representations should take advantage
of the code reuse inherent in object-oriented
software, by reusing representational components.
In this paper, we describe a coherent family of
graphical representations of object-oriented
software that meets the foregoing requirements,
and we outline the architecture of an efficient,
extensible system for constructing and
managing those representations.
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