@inproceedings{c445dcd04b254d4fb31d81d6730e9ec0,
title = "Applying Meyer's taxonomy to object-oriented software systems",
abstract = "Inheritance is one of the core concepts in object-orientation. There has been much discussion and disagreement as to the correct uses of the inheritance mechanism in the literature. The classification of B. Meyer (1996) seems to be the most comprehensive for the identification of appropriate uses of inheritance. While it seems that this taxonomy has been validated by its author, in the design and development of software, it does not seem to have been validated against existing systems. We attempt, in the first instance, to move towards this validation by attempting to define a method whereby the inheritance relationships in software systems can be classified into individual categories in Meyer's taxonomy. Subsequently it also provides some insight on how inheritance is used in such systems.",
keywords = "Buildings, Conferences, Object oriented modeling, Reliability theory, Robustness, Software design, Software systems, Software testing, System testing, Taxonomy",
author = "M. English and J. Buckley and T. Cahill",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2003 IEEE.; 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2003 ; Conference date: 26-09-2003 Through 27-09-2003",
year = "2003",
doi = "10.1109/SCAM.2003.1238029",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2003",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "35--44",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2003",
}