AID: Una Herramienta para el Análisis de Identificadores en Programas JAVA

Abstract

The current demands in software development imply a permanent maintenance and evolution with minimal costs (time and other resources). Program Comprehension (PC), a discipline of Software Engineering, provides methods, techniques and strategies to carry out these tasks. The comprehension techniques use two kind of information: Static and Dynamic. Both techniques share a common element that is always present and provides useful information: the Identifiers (Id). Previous research indicates that Ids, yet when they are acronyms or composed, give important clues about the system functionalities. For this reason, to build comprehension tools that automatize the
process of extraction and analysis of the identifiers is an important contribution for PC.
This article presents AId, a tool that extracts and analyzes Ids with the goal of finding their meaning; in that way Aid aims to help understanding the program under study.