Injecting software architectural constraints into legacy scientific applications

Author

Woollard, David ; Mattmann, Chris ; Medvidovic, Nenad

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., Pasadena, CA

fYear

2009

fDate

23-23 May 2009

Firstpage

65

Lastpage

71

Abstract

While software architectures have been shown to aid developers in maintenance, reuse, and evolution as well as many other software engineering tasks, there is little language-level support for these architectural concepts in scientific programming languages such as Fortran and C. Because many existing scientific codes are written in legacy languages, it is difficult to integrate them into architected software systems. By wrapping scientific codes in architecturally-aware interfaces, we are able to componentize legacy programs, integrating them into systems built with first-class architectural elements while meeting performance and throughput requirements of scientific codes.

Keywords

C language; FORTRAN; software architecture; software maintenance; software reusability; componentize legacy programs; legacy languages; legacy scientific applications; scientific programming languages; software architectural constraints; software engineering tasks; Application software; Computer architecture; Connectors; Laboratories; Programming; Propulsion; Software architecture; Software engineering; Software maintenance; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering for Computational Science and Engineering, 2009. SECSE '09. ICSE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3737-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECSE.2009.5069164

Filename

5069164