Title :
Towards Open Source Software System Architecture Recovery Using Design Metrics
Author :
Constantinou, Eleni ; Kakarontzas, George ; Stamelos, Ioannis
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Dept., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
fDate :
Sept. 30 2011-Oct. 2 2011
Abstract :
Over the past years, software development practices include open source code reuse. Since documentation gives little or no information about the system architecture, a prohibitive amount of effort is required to comprehend the source code and the overall system architecture. In this paper, we investigate how design metrics can reveal architectural information about a software system and more specifically, how architectural layers are correlated to design metrics. Finally, we present an empirical study on two large open source systems written in Java, attempting to identify metrics revealing information about the system architecture.
Keywords :
Java; public domain software; software architecture; software metrics; Java; design metrics; open source software system architecture recovery; software system architectural information; Computer architecture; Correlation; Java; Measurement; Software; Software architecture; architecture layer; design metrics; object-oriented; program comprehension; reuse; system understanding;
Conference_Titel :
Informatics (PCI), 2011 15th Panhellenic Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kastonia
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-962-1
DOI :
10.1109/PCI.2011.36