Title :
Bridging the Concrete and Logical Domains for Software Architecture Reconstruction
Author_Institution :
Nokia Research Center, Finland
fDate :
6/27/1905 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Software architecture reconstruction is essentially the process of creating a set of architectural views with the information recovered from the actual implementation of a software system. While recovering the basic facts about the implementation can be automated with source code analyzers, mapping them to logical concepts is mainly a conceptual activity. We investigate the problem of how to bridge the logical and concrete domains for the purpose of creating architectural views. Our conclusion is that there is still a considerable gap between the theoretical framework and the practical experiences. This hinders the possibility of developing a general, rigorous and effective architecture reconstruction method.
Keywords :
Bridges; Computer architecture; Concrete; Documentation; Information resources; Reconstruction algorithms; Reverse engineering; Runtime; Software architecture; Software systems;
Conference_Titel :
Software Architecture, 2005. WICSA 2005. 5th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2548-2
DOI :
10.1109/WICSA.2005.18