Evaluating architectural extractors

Author

Armstrong, M.N. ; Trudeau, C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

1998

fDate

12-14 Oct 1998

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

39

Abstract

One of the goals of reverse engineering a software system is to extract an architectural design from the source code. This paper compares a selection of tools available to perform this architectural recovery. The following tools are examined: Rigi (Muller, 1996), the Dali workbench (Kazman and Carriere, 1998), the Software Bookshelf (PBS) (Finnigan et al., 1997), CIA (Chen et al., 1990) and SNiFF+. This comparison is based on the abilities of the tools to perform data extraction, classification, and visualization. Of the tools evaluated, the Software Bookshelf and the Dali workbench were found to be the most suitable for architectural recovery

Keywords

data visualisation; reverse engineering; software selection; software tools; CIA; Dali workbench; Rigi; SNiFF+; Software Bookshelf; architectural extractors; classification; data extraction; reverse engineering; software architectural design; software tools; source code; visualization; Data mining; Data visualization; Relational databases; Reverse engineering; Software engineering; Software prototyping; Software systems; Software tools; Trademarks; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reverse Engineering, 1998. Proceedings. Fifth Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8967-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCRE.1998.723173

Filename

723173