Slicing for architectural analysis

  • Authors:

  • Nuno F. Rodrigues;Luis S. Barbosa

  • Affiliations:

  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Science of Computer Programming
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Current software development often relies on non-trivial coordination logic for combining autonomous services, eventually running on different platforms. As a rule, however, such a coordination layer is strongly woven within the application at source code level. Therefore, its precise identification becomes a major methodological (and technical) problem and a challenge to any program understanding or refactoring process. The approach introduced in this paper resorts to slicing techniques to extract coordination data from source code. Such data are captured in a specific dependency graph structure from which a coordination model can be recovered either in the form of an Orc specification or as a collection of code fragments corresponding to the identification of typical coordination patterns in the system. Tool support is also discussed.