Common coupling as a measure of reuse effort in kernel-based software with case studies on the creation of MkLinux and Darwin

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Autor(a) principal: Yu,Liguo
Data de Publicação: 2008
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-65002008000100005
Resumo: An obstacle to software reuse is the large number of major modifications that frequently have to be made as a consequence of dependencies within the reused software components. In this paper, common coupling is categorized and used as a measure of the dependencies between software components. We compared common coupling in three operating systems, Linux, FreeBSD, and Mach, and related it to the reuse effort of these systems. The measure is evaluated by studying the creation of two operating systems, MkLinux which is based on the reuse of Linux and Mach, and Darwin which is based on the reuse of FreeBSD and Mach. We conclude that the way that common coupling is implemented in Linux kernel induces large dependencies between software components, which required more effort in order to be reused to produce MkLinux, while the common coupling implemented in the Mach and FreeBSD kernels induces few dependencies between software components, which required less effort in order to be reused to produce Darwin.
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title Common coupling as a measure of reuse effort in kernel-based software with case studies on the creation of MkLinux and Darwin
spellingShingle Common coupling as a measure of reuse effort in kernel-based software with case studies on the creation of MkLinux and Darwin
Yu,Liguo
Reuse
common coupling
kernel-based software
MkLinux
Darwin
title_short Common coupling as a measure of reuse effort in kernel-based software with case studies on the creation of MkLinux and Darwin
title_full Common coupling as a measure of reuse effort in kernel-based software with case studies on the creation of MkLinux and Darwin
title_fullStr Common coupling as a measure of reuse effort in kernel-based software with case studies on the creation of MkLinux and Darwin
title_full_unstemmed Common coupling as a measure of reuse effort in kernel-based software with case studies on the creation of MkLinux and Darwin
title_sort Common coupling as a measure of reuse effort in kernel-based software with case studies on the creation of MkLinux and Darwin
author Yu,Liguo
author_facet Yu,Liguo
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Yu,Liguo
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Reuse
common coupling
kernel-based software
MkLinux
Darwin
topic Reuse
common coupling
kernel-based software
MkLinux
Darwin
description An obstacle to software reuse is the large number of major modifications that frequently have to be made as a consequence of dependencies within the reused software components. In this paper, common coupling is categorized and used as a measure of the dependencies between software components. We compared common coupling in three operating systems, Linux, FreeBSD, and Mach, and related it to the reuse effort of these systems. The measure is evaluated by studying the creation of two operating systems, MkLinux which is based on the reuse of Linux and Mach, and Darwin which is based on the reuse of FreeBSD and Mach. We conclude that the way that common coupling is implemented in Linux kernel induces large dependencies between software components, which required more effort in order to be reused to produce MkLinux, while the common coupling implemented in the Mach and FreeBSD kernels induces few dependencies between software components, which required less effort in order to be reused to produce Darwin.
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