%0 Conference Paper %1 Stevens2007a %A Stevens, Matthias %A Kellens, Andy %A Brichau, Johan %A D'Hondt, Theo %B BENEVOL 2007 - 6th BElgian-NEtherlands software eVOLution workshop (Namur, Belgium, December 13-14, 2007) %D 2007 %K Computer_Science DSM Dependencies Dependency_Management Design_Structure_Matrix Modularisation OOP OOSD Object-Oriented_Programming Object-Oriented_Software_Development Programming Software_Development Software_Evolution myown %T Managing Software Dependencies using Design Structure Matrices %U http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2007/vub-prog-tr-07-24.pdf %X Modularity plays an important role in increasing the evolvability and maintainability of software systems. A system which is structured in such a way that the different components are loosely coupled, makes it possible for developers to adapt and maintain a particular component in relative isolation of the other components of the system. Conversely, if components are tightly coupled this can constrain the evolvability of the system. For instance, low-level implementation dependencies between different components often translate to dependencies among people or development teams, meaning that changes local to one implementation component can have a much larger impact throughout the system. In this paper we present DSMBrowser, a novel approach and accompanying source-code browser for managing, visualising and reasoning about dependencies in source code.

@inproceedings{Stevens2007a, abstract = {Modularity plays an important role in increasing the evolvability and maintainability of software systems. A system which is structured in such a way that the different components are loosely coupled, makes it possible for developers to adapt and maintain a particular component in relative isolation of the other components of the system. Conversely, if components are tightly coupled this can constrain the evolvability of the system. For instance, low-level implementation dependencies between different components often translate to dependencies among people or development teams, meaning that changes local to one implementation component can have a much larger impact throughout the system. In this paper we present DSMBrowser, a novel approach and accompanying source-code browser for managing, visualising and reasoning about dependencies in source code.}, added-at = {2011-02-10T15:39:04.000+0100}, author = {Stevens, Matthias and Kellens, Andy and Brichau, Johan and D'Hondt, Theo}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/25f6b16d8d8bb283d9367d9e85be7a716/mstevens83}, booktitle = {BENEVOL 2007 - 6th BElgian-NEtherlands software eVOLution workshop (Namur, Belgium, December 13-14, 2007)}, description = {Workshop took place at University of Namur, Namuer Belgium, December 13-14, 2007.}, interhash = {77429d710739bee5dcb43a33289675f5}, intrahash = {5f6b16d8d8bb283d9367d9e85be7a716}, keywords = {Computer_Science DSM Dependencies Dependency_Management Design_Structure_Matrix Modularisation OOP OOSD Object-Oriented_Programming Object-Oriented_Software_Development Programming Software_Development Software_Evolution myown}, owner = {mstevens}, timestamp = {2011-02-10T15:39:04.000+0100}, title = {{M}anaging {S}oftware {D}ependencies using {D}esign {S}tructure {M}atrices}, url = {http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2007/vub-prog-tr-07-24.pdf}, year = 2007 }