Bad Smells in Industrial Automation: Sniffing out Feature Envy

Bad Smells are sub-optimal software structures or patterns. They can obstruct the understandability of a software system and cause maintenance issues. As a result, it is critical to avoid Bad Smells. While the subject is well-researched in software engineering, it remains an unresolved issue in indu...

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Published in2022 48th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) pp. 346 - 349
Main Authors Sonnleithner, Lisa, Rabiser, Rick, Zoitl, Alois
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.08.2022
Subjects
anti-pattern
Automation
bad smell
code smell
Control systems
CPPS
CPS
design smell
distributed control system
Feature Envy
Feature extraction
IEC 61499
IEC Standards
Maintenance engineering
measure
metric
Production systems
Software systems
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Summary:Bad Smells are sub-optimal software structures or patterns. They can obstruct the understandability of a software system and cause maintenance issues. As a result, it is critical to avoid Bad Smells. While the subject is well-researched in software engineering, it remains an unresolved issue in industrial automation, e.g., when developing control software in the context of a Cyber-Physical Production System (CPPS). In this short paper, we present possible detection methods for Feature Envy, a smell that indicates bad modularization of a software system. We explain how these methods can be applied to analyze control software developed in IEC 61499. We present first results as well as next steps.
DOI:10.1109/SEAA56994.2022.00061