The Experience of Software Reengineering by Using Haptics through Tangible User Interface

摘要

The need for software reengineering is ever increasing. To satisfy the need, several metrics and tools are developed. We developed the toolkit which reorganizes the software programs using the haptics through tangible interface. The toolkit decomposes the Java source programs into small classes, and integrates them into the harmonized classes by using the haptic device. The metrics analyzed are mapped to the attributes of the virtual objects, and can be touched and perceived by the haptics through tangible interface and integrated into the harmonized object by coupling objects. This paper describes the way that software programs are reengineered by the toolkit. Software reengineering methodology using the toolkit is proposed. Sound coupling and cohesion coupling by using haptics through tangible interface are introduced, and some experiments performed are presented.