Introduction to the Special Issue on Software Architecture
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering - Special issue on software architecture
Formalizing style to understand descriptions of software architecture
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Software architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline
Software architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline
Pattern-oriented software architecture: a system of patterns
Pattern-oriented software architecture: a system of patterns
Software architecture recovery of embedded software
ICSE '97 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering
Recognizers for extracting architectural features from source code
WCRE '95 Proceedings of the Second Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
Scenarios for the Identification of Objects in Legacy Systems
WCRE '97 Proceedings of the Fourth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE '97)
IWSSD '96 Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Software Specification and Design
Feature-oriented re-engineering of legacy systems into product line assets: a case study
SPLC'05 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Software Product Lines
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Industrial software development is often an evolutionary process. Software products are developed for one specific customer and later on refined for other customers with different requirements in terms of a product family. Refinements happen at the implementation level (algorithms and data structures) and on the architectural level (the overall system structure). Recovery of architectural information is necessary to build up a complete and unambiguous description of the architecture of a system. In this paper, we describe an approach for the recovery of architectural structure that focuses on component and connector identification. We describe different strategies to define components and connectors of the system. The examples given in the paper were developed out of an industrial case study, a real-time Train Control System. The recovered architectural description allows reasoning about the quality of the system architecture: The description of the architectural structure revealed hardware-dependent components that in case of a hardware change would have to be changed completely. Therefore, our investigations showed that such a recovery of architectural structure is important to reduce future efforts in the development and maintenance of product lines.