Architecture recovery of web applications
Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering
A model independent source code repository
CASCON '99 Proceedings of the 1999 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
A multi-perspective software visualization environment
CASCON '00 Proceedings of the 2000 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Representing and Accessing Extracted Information
ICSM '01 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'01)
Documenting software systems using types
Science of Computer Programming - Software analysis, evolution and re-engineering
The SEXTANT Software Exploration Tool
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An experiment on the role of graphical elements in architecture visualization
Empirical Software Engineering
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Software architecture visualization tools tend to support browsing, that is, exploration by following concepts. If architectural diagrams are to be used during daily software maintenance tasks, these tools also need to support specific fact-finding through searching. Searching is essential to program comprehension and hypothesis testing. Furthermore, searching allows users to reverse the abstractions in architectural diagrams and access facts in the underlying program code. In this paper, we consider the problem of searching and browsing software architectures using perspectives from information retrieval and program comprehension. After analyzing our own user studies and results from the literature, we propose a solution: the Searchable Bookshelf, an architecture visualization tool that supports both navigation styles. We also present a prototype of our tool which is an extension of an existing architecture visualization tool.