TY - GEN
T1 - A view matcher for reusing smalltalk classes
AU - Rosson, Mary Beth
AU - Carroll, John M.
AU - Sweeney, Christine
PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - A prime attraction of object-oriented programming languages is the possibility of reusing code. We examine the support provided by Smalltalk to programmers attempting to incorporate an existing class into a new design, focussing on issues of usage examples, object-specific analysis, how-to-use-it information, and object connections. We then describe a View Matcher for reuse, a tool that documents reusable classes through a set of coordinated views onto concrete usage examples; in three scenarios, we illustrate how the tool addresses the issues raised in our analysis of reuse in Smalltalk.
AB - A prime attraction of object-oriented programming languages is the possibility of reusing code. We examine the support provided by Smalltalk to programmers attempting to incorporate an existing class into a new design, focussing on issues of usage examples, object-specific analysis, how-to-use-it information, and object connections. We then describe a View Matcher for reuse, a tool that documents reusable classes through a set of coordinated views onto concrete usage examples; in three scenarios, we illustrate how the tool addresses the issues raised in our analysis of reuse in Smalltalk.
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U2 - 10.1145/108844.108916
DO - 10.1145/108844.108916
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:1542484470
SN - 0897913833
SN - 9780897913836
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 277
EP - 283
BT - Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 1991
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 1991 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 1991
Y2 - 27 April 1991 through 2 May 1991
ER -