Using Hierarchical Latent Dirichlet Allocation to Construct Feature Tree for Program Comprehension
Joint Authors
Sun, Xiaobing
Li, Bin
Duan, Yucong
Liu, Xiangyue
Source
Issue
Vol. 2017, Issue 2017 (31 Dec. 2017), pp.1-11, 11 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2017-04-12
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
11
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Program comprehension is an important task faced by developers during software maintenance.
With the increasing complexity of evolving systems, program comprehension becomes more and more difficult.
In practice, programmers are accustomed to getting a general view of the features in a software system and then finding the interesting or necessary files to start the understanding process.
Given a system, developers may need a general view of the system.
The traditional view of a system is shown in a package-class structure which is difficult to understand, especially for large systems.
In this article, we focus on understanding the system in both feature view and file structure view.
This article proposes an approach to generate a feature tree based on hierarchical Latent Dirichlet Allocation (hLDA), which includes two hierarchies, the feature hierarchy and file structure hierarchy.
The feature hierarchy shows the features from abstract level to detailed level, while the file structure hierarchy shows the classes from whole to part.
Empirical results show that the feature tree can produce a view for the features and files, and the clustering of classes in the package in our approach is better (in terms of recall) than the other clustering approach, that is, hierarchical clustering.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Sun, Xiaobing& Liu, Xiangyue& Duan, Yucong& Li, Bin. 2017. Using Hierarchical Latent Dirichlet Allocation to Construct Feature Tree for Program Comprehension. Scientific Programming،Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1203405
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Sun, Xiaobing…[et al.]. Using Hierarchical Latent Dirichlet Allocation to Construct Feature Tree for Program Comprehension. Scientific Programming No. 2017 (2017), pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1203405
American Medical Association (AMA)
Sun, Xiaobing& Liu, Xiangyue& Duan, Yucong& Li, Bin. Using Hierarchical Latent Dirichlet Allocation to Construct Feature Tree for Program Comprehension. Scientific Programming. 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1203405
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1203405