WCRE 1998 Most Influential Paper: Grokking Software Architecture

Author

Holt, Richard C.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

fYear

2008

fDate

15-18 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

5

Lastpage

14

Abstract

This paper is a retrospective arising from a WCRE paper published in 1998 promoting a relational approach to manipulate software architecture and to help solve various problems in software analysis. That paper explains how Tarskipsilas binary relational algebra, embedded in a language such as Grok, can solve such problems. Tarskipsilas notation is elegant and often efficiently executable when the subject at hand is characterized by parts with binary relations between them. Software architecture, especially as-built architecture, is such a subject. This paper concentrates on the following three questions. What impact can a relational approach have on our understanding of software architecture? What Grok-languages exist and what are their strengths? How have Grok-like languages been used to solve problems in software architecture or software analysis?

Keywords

relational algebra; software architecture; Grokking software architecture; Tarski binary relational algebra; software analysis; Algebra; Architecture description languages; Computer architecture; Computer science; Documentation; Reverse engineering; Software architecture; Software systems; Unified modeling language; Writing; Tarski; architecture; reverse engineering; software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reverse Engineering, 2008. WCRE '08. 15th Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Antwerp

ISSN

1095-1350

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3429-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCRE.2008.34

Filename

4656388