Modeling Runtime Behavior in Framework-Based Applications

Abstract. Our research group has analyzed many industrial, frameworkbased applications. In these applications, simple functionality often requires excessive runtime activity. It is increasingly difficult to assess if and how inefficiencies can be fixed. Much of this activity involves the transformation of information, due to framework couplings. We present an approach to modeling and quantifying behavior in terms of what transformations accomplish. We structure activity into dataflow diagrams that capture the flow between transformations. Across disparate implementations, we observe commonalities in how transformations use and change their inputs. We introduce vocabulary of common phenomena of use and change, and four ways to classify data and transformations using this vocabulary. The structuring and classification enable evaluation and comparison in stracted from implementation specifics. We introduce metrics of complexity and cost, including behavior signatures that attribute measur...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ECOOP
• Authors: Nick Mitchell, Gary Sevitsky, Harini Srinivasan
• Keywords: Classification Enable Evaluation, ECOOP 2006, Excessive Runtime Activity, Frameworkbased Applications, Programming Languages