Visual comparison of software architectures

  • Authors:
  • Fabian Beck;Stephan Diehl

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Trier, Trier, Germany;University of Trier, Trier, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th international symposium on Software visualization
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Reverse engineering methods produce different descriptions of software architectures. In this work we analyze and define the task of exploring and comparing these descriptions. We present a novel visualization technique to compare architectures based on the decomposition of the software system and on the dependencies among the code entities. A case study related to software clustering shows how we can apply this technique in practice.