A Software Framework for Identifying the Law of Demeter Violations

This paper describes a software framework for identifying the Law of Demeter violations in programs´ source-code. It discusses the main challenges related to language constructs and static code analysis. Its main contribution is the proposition and implementation of an extended version to the Law of Demeter as a software framework for identifying violations in software written in C# language. At the end, a quasi-controlled experiment involving an open-source program and its results is presented, where a reduction of 89% on reported violations was achieved by eliminating noisy violations.