Visualizing and analyzing software infrastructures

Author

Buchsbaum, Adam ; Chen, Yih-Farn ; Huang, Huale ; Koutsofios, Eleftherios ; Mocenigo, John ; Rogers, Anne ; Jankowsky, Research Michael ; Mancoridis, Spiros

Author_Institution

AT&T Labs.-Res., Florham Park, NJ, USA

Volume

18

Issue

5

fYear

2001

Firstpage

62

Lastpage

70

Abstract

Companies frequently need to redesign their software infrastructures in response to marketplace changes, but they must do so carefully so that the new architecture will not disrupt existing operations or increase operating costs unnecessarily. To support these goals, system architects have long recognized the need to build a repository of information about all of their company´s systems and their interfaces. Using this information, architects create system interface diagrams to help them study the existing architecture. The authors discuss their system, Enterprise Navigator, which lets users make ad hoc queries about an enterprise software architecture and then automatically generate the corresponding system interface diagram in real time on the Web

Keywords

Internet; business data processing; diagrams; program visualisation; real-time systems; software architecture; Enterprise Navigator; Internet; World Wide Web; ad hoc queries; costs; enterprise software architecture; information repository; marketplace change; real time system; software infrastructure visualization; software redesign; system interface diagram; Application software; Computer architecture; Information analysis; Java; Navigation; Reverse engineering; Software systems; Visual databases; Visualization; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/52.951497

Filename

951497