Title :
Understanding the architecture of software systems
Author :
Fiutem, R. ; Merlo, E. ; Antoniol, G. ; Tonella, P.
Author_Institution :
Istituto per la Ricerca Sci. e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy
Abstract :
The first activity performed by maintenance programmers when approaching the task of understanding a system is often trying to discover its high level structure, that is identifying its subsystems and their relations: in few words, the software architecture of the system. In this paper, an approach for the architectural analysis of software systems, together with an environment implementing the approach, are described. The approach is based on a hierarchical architectural model that drives the application of a set of architectural recognizers. Each recognizer builds an abstract view describing some architectural aspects of the system, or of some of its parts
Keywords :
data visualisation; program diagnostics; reverse engineering; software maintenance; software tools; visual programming; abstract view; hierarchical architectural model; high level structure; program understanding; programmers; reverse engineering; software architecture; software environment; software maintenance; software understanding; software visualization; systems analysis; user interface; Application software; Computer architecture; Connectors; Personnel; Programming profession; Reverse engineering; Software architecture; Software systems; User interfaces; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Program Comprehension, 1996, Proceedings., Fourth Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Berlin
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7283-8
DOI :
10.1109/WPC.1996.501133
