Ontology-Assisted Structural Design Flaw Detection of Object-Oriented Software

摘要

A design flaw is indicative of a potential shortcoming in the construction of a software system and can result in a reduction in the quality of the software. This study offers a means of detecting design flaws through the use of ontology-assisted flaw description and declarative meta programming. Ontology flaw structures are used to describe the flaw domains, while the use of a declarative-based method allows the design flaws which arise within an object-oriented system to be altered into these structures, thereby permitting their detection at the metalevel when declarative meta programming is employed. This research uses the method described in order to detect a number of design flaws which are already well-documented. The findings demonstrate that the method is successful in detecting those flaws, and that structural design flaw detection is particularly effective.