Title :
Evolution analysis for Accessibility Excessiveness in Java
Author :
Kobori, Kazuo ; Matsushita, Makoto ; Inoue, Katsuro
Author_Institution :
NTT DATA Corp., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
In Java programs, access modifiers are used to control the accessibility of fields and methods from other objects. Choosing appropriate access modifiers is one of the key factors to improve program quality and to reduce potential vulnerability. In our previous work, we presented a static analysis method named Accessibility Excessiveness (AE) detection for each field and method in Java program. We have also developed an AE analysis tool named ModiChecker that analyzes each field and method of the input Java programs, and reports their excessiveness. In this paper, we have applied ModiChecker to several OSS repositories to investigate the evolution of AE over versions, and identified transition of AE status and the difference in the amount of AE change between major version releases and minor ones. Also we propose when to evaluate source code with AE analysis.
Keywords :
Java; program diagnostics; program verification; source code (software); AE analysis tool; AE detection; Java programs; ModiChecker; OSS repositories; access modifiers; accessibility control; accessibility excessiveness detection; program quality; program vulnerability; source code; static analysis method; Abstracts; Databases; Java; Libraries; Maintenance engineering; Measurement; Programming;
Conference_Titel :
Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2015 IEEE 22nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Montreal, QC
DOI :
10.1109/SANER.2015.7081818