Archimetrix: A Tool for Deficiency-Aware Software Architecture Reconstruction

Maintaining software systems requires up-to-date models of these systems to systematically plan, analyze, and execute the necessary reengineering steps. Often, no or only outdated models of such systems exist. Thus, a reverse engineering step is needed that recovers the system´s components, subsystems, and connectors. However, reverse engineering methods are severely impacted by design deficiencies in the system´s code base, e.g., they lead to wrong component structures. Therefore, Archimetrix enables the reengineer to detect the most relevant deficiencies with respect to a reverse engineered component-based architecture and supports him by presenting the architectural consequences of removing a given deficiency.