caa a22 4500 60549567X CHVBK 20210128100532.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11219-014-9245-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11219-014-9245-3 Functionality-based software packaging using sequence diagrams [Elektronische Daten] [Shouki Ebad, Moataz Ahmed] Modular software design is characterized by partitioning the system into discrete scalable, reusable modules consisting of isolated, self-contained functional elements. Software architects use modularity to allow independent offerings and reuse. Moreover, modularity allows dealing with changing customer demands, as it offers software architectures that are stable and more adaptive to changes. There have been some attempts at automatic partitioning of object-oriented classes into modules (i.e., packages). However, all these attempts are based on source code, i.e., they occur late in the development process at the implementation stage. In this paper, we present a metric and a search-based mechanism to allow automatic functionality-based system partitioning during the architecture design phase using requirements conceptual sequence diagrams. The metric is validated against applicable theoretical properties and also experimentally against hypothetical and real-case studies using different search techniques. Results suggest that the metric together with the partitioning mechanism is promising and can be used in effectively partitioning system conceptual classes into packages. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Search-based software engineering nationallicence Automatic software packaging nationallicence Software modularization nationallicence Software architecture nationallicence Packaging metric nationallicence Package functionality nationallicence Ebad Shouki Faculty of Computing and IT, Northern Border University, 91911, Rafha, Saudi Arabia aut Ahmed Moataz Information and Computer Science Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, 31261, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia aut Software Quality Journal Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 23/3(2015-09-01), 453-481 0963-9314 23:3<453 2015 23 11219 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11219-014-9245-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11219-014-9245-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ebad Shouki Faculty of Computing and IT, Northern Border University, 91911, Rafha, Saudi Arabia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ahmed Moataz Information and Computer Science Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, 31261, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Software Quality Journal Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 23/3(2015-09-01), 453-481 0963-9314 23:3<453 2015 23 11219