@inproceedings{eb00255283a24d0e940e5cee9cb1f819,
title = "A third-party extension support framework using patterns",
abstract = "Software extension is a fundamental challenge in software engineering which involves extending the functionalities of a software module without modifying it. Many modern software developers choose to adapt third-party extension platform to further improve customizability. As the project evolves, the requirements may change to include third-party extension support. However to design and to implement such platform is no trivial task, and should happen at the beginning of the project. In this paper, we have shown the four types of extensions that are often made to object-oriented software, namely Member Access Extension, Subclass Extension, Event-based Extension and Data Extension. And proposed a language-independent platform design that can be applied to an existing software project to support such third-party extensions. The platform exercises design patterns to implement its features. We also developed an Eclipse plugin that helps developers introduce the platform to existing Java software via semi-automatic code manipulation. We further conducted a comparative experiment to test our tool with volunteers from Waseda University and noticed a significant decrease of required effort.",
keywords = "Design pattern, Extensibility, Extension, Plugin",
author = "Yiyang Hao and Hironori Washizaki and Yoshiaki Fukazawa",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 IEEE.; 22nd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC 2015 ; Conference date: 01-12-2015 Through 04-12-2015",
year = "2016",
month = may,
day = "9",
doi = "10.1109/APSEC.2015.36",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "198--205",
editor = "Jing Sun and Reddy, {Y. Raghu} and Arun Bahulkar and Anjaneyulu Pasala",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 22nd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC 2015",
}