View extraction and view fusion in architectural understanding

When performing architectural analysis on legacy software systems, it is frequently necessary to extract the architecture of the system, because it has not been documented, or because its documentation is out of date. However, architectural information does not exist directly in the artifacts that w...

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Published inProceedings. Fifth International Conference on Software Reuse (Cat. No.98TB100203) pp. 290 - 299
Main Authors Kazman, R., Carriere, S.J.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1998
Subjects
Data mining
Fuses
Information analysis
Navigation
Software architecture
Software engineering
Stress
Testing
Topology
Visualization
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ISBN9780818683770
0818683775
ISSN1085-9098
DOI10.1109/ICSR.1998.685754

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Summary:When performing architectural analysis on legacy software systems, it is frequently necessary to extract the architecture of the system, because it has not been documented, or because its documentation is out of date. However, architectural information does not exist directly in the artifacts that we can extract. The architecture exists in abstractions; compositions of extracted information. Thus, extracted artifacts must be able to be flexibly aggregated and combined. We call this process "view refinement and fusion". This paper presents a workbench for architectural extraction called Dali, and shows how Dali supports flexible extraction and fusion of architectural information. Its use is described through two extended examples of architectural reconstruction.
ISBN:9780818683770
0818683775
ISSN:1085-9098
DOI:10.1109/ICSR.1998.685754