Architecture comprehension tools for a PBX system

Author

Krikhaar, R.L. ; de Jong, R.P. ; Medema, J.P. ; Feija, L.M.G.

Author_Institution

Philips Res. Lab., Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

31

Lastpage

39

Abstract

The comprehension of the dynamic and static structure of a system is of main importance for purposes of adding features, bug solving, and for redesign activities. This holds particularly for systems where the features tend to be strongly intertwined. In telephony systems, there is feature interaction both at specification and implementation level. We report on a dedicated environment called URSA: Understanding and Recovery of the Sopho Architecture. A special role is played by an extended MSC language called CMSC

Keywords

computer telephony integration; private telephone exchanges; program visualisation; reverse engineering; software architecture; software tools; CMSC; Message Sequence Charts; PBX system; URSA; Understanding and Recovery of the Sopho Architecture; Web technology; architecture comprehension tools; bug solving; dedicated environment; dynamic analysis; extended MSC language; feature interaction; implementation level; program comprehension; program visualisation; redesign activities; software architecture extraction; specification; static structure; telephony systems; Computer architecture; Consumer electronics; Intelligent networks; Iron; Laboratories; Software architecture; Switches; Telephony; Tellurium; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 1999. Proceedings of the Third European Conference on

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0090-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSMR.1999.756680

Filename

756680