Software architecture recovery of a program family

Author

Eixelsberger, Wolfgang ; Ogris, Michaela ; Gall, Harald ; Bellay, Berndt

Author_Institution

Inf. Technol. & Control Syst. Group, ABB Corp Res., Billingstad, Norway

fYear

1998

fDate

19-25 Apr 1998

Firstpage

508

Lastpage

511

Abstract

The concept of software architecture has gained a lot of attention and has found its way into the software development process in industry. Software architecture recovery focuses on the recovery of architectural information from existing systems. This paper presents a framework for recovering the software architecture of a program family. Based on the available system information architectural properties such as safety or system control are recovered using different reverse engineering methods and tools in combination with architectural descriptions. We describe our architecture recovery process and discuss the recovery of system structure as one example of the case study. The framework was developed while working on the recovery of the family architecture of a train control system

Keywords

rail traffic; reverse engineering; software engineering; software tools; traffic control; case study; program family; reverse engineering; safety; software architecture recovery; software development process; train control system; Computer architecture; Control systems; Design engineering; Electrical equipment industry; Industrial control; Information technology; Knowledge engineering; Programming; Software architecture; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, 1998. Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

ISSN

0270-5257

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8368-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSE.1998.671617

Filename

671617