Title :
View extraction and view fusion in architectural understanding
Author :
Kazman, Rick ; Carriére, S. Jeromy
Author_Institution :
Software Eng. Inst., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract :
When performing architectural analysis on legacy software systems, it is frequently necessary to extract the architecture of the system, because it has not been documented, or because its documentation is out of date. However, architectural information does not exist directly in the artifacts that we can extract. The architecture exists in abstractions; compositions of extracted information. Thus, extracted artifacts must be able to be flexibly aggregated and combined. We call this process “view refinement and fusion”. This paper presents a workbench for architectural extraction called Dali, and shows how Dali supports flexible extraction and fusion of architectural information. Its use is described through two extended examples of architectural reconstruction
Keywords :
computer aided software engineering; reverse engineering; sensor fusion; system documentation; Dali; abstractions; architectural extraction workbench; architectural reconstruction; documentation; extracted artifacts; extracted information; legacy software systems architectural analysis; software architecture understanding; source model extraction; view extraction; view fusion; view refinement; Data mining; Fuses; Information analysis; Navigation; Software architecture; Software engineering; Stress; Testing; Topology; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Software Reuse, 1998. Proceedings. Fifth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Victoria, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8377-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICSR.1998.685754