Architecture recovery and evaluation aiming at program understanding and reuse

  • Authors:

  • Aline Vasconcelos;Cláudia Werner

  • Affiliations:

  • Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, COPPE/UFRJ, Systems Engineering and Computer Science Program, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil and CEFET Campos, Federal Center for Technological Education of Campo ...;Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, COPPE/UFRJ, Systems Engineering and Computer Science Program, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • QoSA'07 Proceedings of the Quality of software architectures 3rd international conference on Software architectures, components, and applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Organizations use to have implemented systems that represent a large effort and budget invested in the past. These systems are evolved and adapted over time in order to accommodate technological and business changes. Moreover, big companies often develop similar systems within the same domain. This has been motivating them to migrate to reuse approaches, such as domain engineering and product line. However, existing systems in general don't have up-to-date architectural documentation that can help in their maintenance and reuse. Considering this scenario, this paper presents an approach to architecture recovery and evaluation that aims at extracting knowledge from existing systems to help in their understanding and reuse. This extracted knowledge is represented through a recovered application architectural model composed by architectural elements that represent domain concepts traced to implemented functional requirements, which may help in generating reusable artifacts. In order to evaluate the approach feasibility, an experimental study was performed.