Information Technology Journal1812-56381812-5646Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/itj.2008.56.62WangXinyu YangXiaohu SunJianling CaiZhengong 1200871Once software is in production, maintenance works are
inevitable e.g., bug fixes, requirement changes, etc. During the long-term
software maintenance, documents become gradually inconsistent with the
system and the source code becomes the most reliable source for design
recovery. Currently there exist many approaches to identify component
from source code, which adopt different component metrics and clustering
algorithms. However, these approaches are not satisfying in the precision
and efficiency. This study proposes a new component extraction approach
based on 0 metrics and hierarchical clustering algorithm, which greatly
improves the precision and efficiency.]]>Allen, E.B. and T.M. Khoshgoftaar,19991999pp: 119127Chen, B., C.T. Phang, R. Harrison and Y. Pan,20052005pp: 105108Chen, T., T. Tzu-Hsin, Y. Tzu Chen, L. Chin-Chiang, C. Rong-Chang, L. Huan-Yow and C. Hsin-Yi,20052005pp: 405408Cho, E.S., M.S. Kim and S.D. Kim,20012001pp: 419426Holz, E. and O. Kath, 20012001pp: 262272Huber, F., A. Rausch and B. Rumpe,19981998pp: 58970Jain, H.,20012001pp: 183187Lee, E., B. Lee, W. Shin and C. Wu,20032003pp: 336341Lee, E., W. SHIN, B. LEE and C. WU,2005E88-D11781190Meng, F., Z. Den-Chen and X. Xiao-Fei,20052005pp: 473480Saeed, M., O. Maqbool, H.A. Babri, S.Z. Hassan and S.M. Sarwar,20032003pp: 301306Washizaki, H. and Y. Fukazawa,20055699116Wiggerts, T.A.,19971997pp: 3343Chen, Z., Y. Zhou, B. Xu, J. Zhao and H. Yang,20022002pp: 377384