A requirement-driven object-oriented software evolution method

Recently, a lot of research efforts have focused on discovery of complex network characteristics by structure analysis in large-scale software systems, but little research has been done on using the theory and methods of complex network to aid the automated transformation from OOA to OOD, which is regarded as most challenging direction in software engineering. In this paper, we propose an requirement-driven object-oriented software network evolution growth method, which can annotate the growable points in the next generation and can verify the structural consistency between two adjacent generations according to measurement parameters based on complex network. In addition, we modulate the average path length in complex network to measure the communication capability of software network better.