Current Challenges in Practical Object-Oriented Software Design

Maurício Aniche, Joseph W. Yoder, Fabio Kon

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Abstract

According to the extensive 50-year-old body of knowledge in object-oriented programming and design, good software designs are, among other characteristics, lowly coupled, highly cohesive, extensible, comprehensible, and not fragile. However, with the increased complexity and heterogeneity of contemporary software, this might not be enough. This paper discusses the practical challenges of object-oriented design in modern software development. We focus on three main challenges: (1) how technologies, frameworks, and architectures pressure developers to make design decisions that they would not take in an ideal scenario, (2) the complexity of current real-world problems require developers to devise not only a single, but several models for the same problem that live and interact together, and (3) how existing quality assessment techniques for object-oriented design should go beyond high-level metrics. Finally, we propose an agenda for future research that should be tackled by both scientists and practitioners soon. This paper is a call for arms for more reality-oriented research on the object-oriented software design field.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering
Subtitle of host publicationNew Ideas and Emerging Results, ICSE-NIER 2019
EditorsP. Kellenberger
Place of PublicationPiscataway
PublisherIEEE
Pages113-116
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic) 978-1-7281-1758-4
ISBN (Print)978-1-7281-1759-1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER) - Montreal, Canada
Duration: 25 May 201931 May 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results, ICSE-NIER 2019

Conference

Conference2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period25/05/1931/05/19

Bibliographical note

Accepted author manuscript

Keywords

  • Class design
  • Domain modeling
  • Object oriented design
  • Object oriented programming
  • Software architecture
  • Software design
  • Software engineering

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