Software Design X-Rays

Exercises

In these final exercises you get an opportunity to look for early warnings of potential future quality problems. You also get to experiment with a proactive usage of the social analysis techniques as a way to facilitate communication, as well as to reason about offboarding risks.

Early Warnings in Legacy Code

• Repository: Tomcat^[139]

• Language: Java

• Domain: Apache Tomcat is a servlet container that implements several Java EE specifications.

• Analysis snapshot: https://codescene.io/projects/1713/jobs/4294/results

Apache Tomcat has a rich history and the code continues to evolve, which makes it a great case study for detecting early warnings due to new features. One of Tomcat’s classes, java/org/apache/tomcat/util/net/AbstractEndpoint.java ...