KaitoroBase: Visual Exploration of Software Architecture Documents

Authors:
Moon Ting Su;Christian Hirsch;John Hosking
Affiliations:
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Venue:
ASE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper describes a software architecture documentation tool (KaitoroBase) built within the Thinkbase Visual Wiki to provide support for non-linear navigation and visualization of Software Architecture Documents (SADs) produced using the Attribute-Driven Design (ADD) method. This involves constructing the meta-model for the SAD in Freebase which provides the foundation for the graph-based interactive visualization enabled by Thinkbase. The resulting tool displays a graphical, high-level structure of SAD, allows for exploratory search, non-linear navigation, and at the same time connects to low-level details of SADs in a wiki.