Toward a generic framework for computing subsystem interfaces
ISAW '96 Joint proceedings of the second international software architecture workshop (ISAW-2) and international workshop on multiple perspectives in software development (Viewpoints '96) on SIGSOFT '96 workshops
Software architecture in the business software domain: the Descartes experience
ISAW '98 Proceedings of the third international workshop on Software architecture
3D visualization of software architectures
Communications of the ACM
Automatic architectual clustering of software
Advances in software engineering
A hybrid process for recovering software architecture
CASCON '96 Proceedings of the 1996 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
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There have been many systems developed that attempt to recover design and structure from code. We present our experience with using one such tool, SoFi, to extract design structure from a large industrial system written in C. We compare the extracted structure to that which was intended by the designers of the system. We observe and categorize, for our system, the reasons why these two views differ. We observe that seemingly minor decisions in implementation, can have a large impact an the extracted design, and draw some conclusions about the practicality of trying to recover "intended designs" from source code.