As we are working with UML and modelling I find the focusing on classes
(hotspots or important classes) interesting. I would assume that the
important classes would have prominent places in the class diagrams (many
associations or associations to many different groups of classes). The
question is then, could an algorithm to find important classes help the
automatic layout algorithm in ArgoUML to do a better job or is it the other
way around that a good graphical layout could help in identifying the
important classes. I guess it works both ways.
In any case, it will be interesting to see the resulting tool.
/Linus
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Bob Tarling <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > I would think such a tool should preferably operate without any
> > developer input but could then be tuned.
>
> My impression was that Alberto's questionaire was to establish a
> ground truth of expert opinion against which to measure the results of
> his tool(s). This is something that would be done during the
> development/evaluation phase of the tool, not something that you'd do
> as a matter of course if he were able to come up with suitable
> automatic algorithms.
>
> > When viewing the results of the above the seasoned developwe may spot
> > anomalies and then choose to remove items that are not relevant (for
> > argouml that would almost certainly be the critics).
>
> Except for a developer who wanted to extend the critics to cover UML
> 1.4 or 2.x or modify the critic infrastructure to operate differently.
> That was my point about importance being context sensitive. I agree
> that for developers focused on other areas, critics could be largely
> irrelevant (although the general knowledge that ArgoUML has multiple
> threads of execution is probably important context for all
> developers).
>
> BTW Alberto, I'd avoid the term "hot spots" and stick to "important
> classes" or something similar. For me, hotspots is something I
> asssociate with performance profiling (which may also be why Bob was
> referencing code coverage utilities).
>
> Tom
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