Traits: A mechanism for fine-grained reuse

Traits: A mechanism for fine-grained reuse (2006)

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by Stéphane Ducasse , Oscar Nierstrasz , Nathanael Schärli , Andrew P. Black

Venue:	Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
Citations:	60 - 18 self

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TITLE	Traits: A mechanism for fine-grained reuse	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Stéphane Ducasse	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Software Composition Group, University of Berne and; Language and Software Evolution Group, LTI — LISTIC, Université de Savoie; and	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Oscar Nierstrasz	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Software Composition Group, University of Berne; and; ROEL WUYTS; Lab for Software Composition and Decomposition, Université Libre de Bruxelles; and	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Nathanael Schärli	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Software Composition Group, University of Berne; and; ROEL WUYTS; Lab for Software Composition and Decomposition, Université Libre de Bruxelles; and	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Andrew P. Black	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Computer Science, Portland State University	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	Inheritance is well-known and accepted as a mechanism for reuse in object-oriented languages. Unfortunately, due to the coarse granularity of inheritance, it may be difficult to decompose an application into an optimal class hierarchy that maximizes software reuse. Existing schemes based on single inheritance, multiple inheritance, or mixins, all pose numerous problems for reuse. To overcome these problems we propose traits, pure units of reuse consisting only of methods. We develop a formal model of traits that establishes how traits can be composed, either to form other traits, or to form classes. We also outline an experimental validation in which we apply traits to refactor a non-trivial application into composable units.	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	2006	INFERENCE
VENUE	Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	JOURNAL	INFERENCE
PAGES	2006	INFERENCE
VOLUME	28	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	81 found	ParsCit 1.0