Supporting program comprehension using semantic and structural information
ICSE '01 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Approaches to clustering for program comprehension and remodularization
Advances in software engineering
A Metric-Based Approach to Detect Abstract Data Types and State Encapsulations
Automated Software Engineering
An Approach for Recovering Distributed System Architectures
Automated Software Engineering
The Relation Between the Product Line Development Entry Points and Reengineering
Proceedings of the Second International ESPRIT ARES Workshop on Development and Evolution of Software Architectures for Product Families
Identification of High-Level Concept Clones in Source Code
Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering
Revisiting the ΔIC approach to component recovery
Science of Computer Programming - Software analysis, evolution and re-engineering
Software Engineering
Combating architectural degeneration: a survey
Information and Software Technology
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In the context of the authors' research on architectural features recovery, abstract data type (ADT) and abstract state encapsulation (ASE, also called abstract object) have been identified as two of the smallest components which are useful to build a significant architectural overview of the system. The authors have named these the atomic components of an architecture.This paper compares five published techniques which extract ADT and ASE from source code. A prototype tool implementing each techniques has been developed and applied to three medium size systems written in C (each over 30 Kloc). The results from each approach are compared with the atomic components identified by hand by a group of software engineers. These people did not know the automatic techniques which were going to be applied to the systems.