Software Design X-Rays

Exercises

Doing high-level refactorings will never become easy, and like any other skill, we need to practice it. The following exercises give you an opportunity to experiment with the techniques on your own. You also get a chance to investigate a component-oriented architecture, which makes an interesting contrast to the change patterns we saw in layered codebases.

Detect Components Across Layers

• Repository: nopCommerce^[99]
• Language: C#
• Domain: nopCommerce is an e-commerce shopping cart.
• Analysis snapshot: https://codescene.io/projects/1593/jobs/3920/results/code/temporal-coupling/by-commits

In this chapter we detected that News and Blog evolved together and thus may have a shared concept in common. Investigate the change coupling in nopCommerce ...