An object-oriented software customization model and its application to network management systems /

Software customization is a labor-intensive and complicated

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, Henry Haojin
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1995.
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520 |a Software customization is a labor-intensive and complicated  
520 |a process and becomes even more so as application systems  
520 |a become larger and more complex. In this research, a model is  
520 |a proposed for object-oriented software customization. The  
520 |a purpose of the model is to help the user customize an object- 
520 |a oriented software system in an efficient manner. The  
520 |a proposed model consists of four major components, i.e., a  
520 |a customization goal hierarchy, a set of customization  
520 |a operators, a context class graph and a customization model  
520 |a schema. The user starts the customization process by select 
520 |a ing a customization goal from the goal hierarchy, the goal  
520 |a that best matches his/her needs. Connected to the goal are a  
520 |a set of customization operators that specify the operations to  
520 |a be performed in order to achieve the goal. Associated with  
520 |a the goal and the set of operators is a context class graph  
520 |a that gives a high level, graphical view of the context of the  
520 |a customization operations. From the customization model  
520 |a schema, the user can find a detailed description of the  
520 |a context, constraints and specification of each customization  
520 |a operation. Thus, the proposed customization model provides a  
520 |a road map to guide a user through the complicated maze of  
520 |a customizing a software system. The customization model is  
520 |a put in a hypertext based environment (HTML) so that the user  
520 |a can navigate around the model and other related information  
520 |a with ease during the software customization process. A set  
520 |a of heuristics are developed to guide software designers to  
520 |a construct a customization model efficiently. The proposed  
520 |a model is applied to a network management system to gain some  
520 |a practical insight and first-hand experience with the proposed  
520 |a model and to acquire quantitative data on the efficiency of  
520 |a the model. 
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