Recovering system specific rules from software repositories
MSR '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international workshop on Mining software repositories
Software Engineering
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
Graph-based structural analysis for telecommunication systems
Graph transformations and model-driven engineering
Controlling software architecture erosion: A survey
Journal of Systems and Software
Static analysis based software architecture recovery
ICCSA'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part III
Experiences with using the systematic method for architecture recovery (SyMAR)
Proceedings of the South African Institute for Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Conference
Comparison and evaluation of source code mining tools and techniques: A qualitative approach
Intelligent Data Analysis
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Architectural patterns and styles represent important design decisions and thus are valuable abstractions for architecture recovery. Recognizing them is a challenge because styles and patterns basically span several architectural elements and can be implemented in various ways depending on the problem domain and the implementation variants. Our approach uses source code structures as patterns and introduces an iterative and interactive architecture recovery approach built upon such lower-level patterns extracted from source code. Associations between extracted pattern instances and architectural elements such as modules arise which result in new and higher-level views of the software system. These pattern views provide information for a consecutive refinement of pattern definitions to aggregate and abstract higher-level patterns which finally enable the description of a software system's architecture.