Evolutionary and collaborative software architecture recovery with Softwarenaut

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• 作者：Mircea Lungu ; Michele Lanza ; Oscar Nierstrasz
• 关键词：Architecture recovery ; Visualization ; Reverse engineering ; Software tools
• 刊名：Science of Computer Programming
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：1 January, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：79
• 期：Complete
• 页码：204-223
• 全文大小：2568 K

文摘

Architecture recovery is an activity applied to a system whose initial architecture has eroded. When the system is large, the user must use dedicated tools to support the recovery process. We present Softwarenaut ¡ª a tool which supports architecture recovery through interactive exploration and visualization. Classical architecture recovery features, such as filtering and details on demand, are enhanced with evolutionary capabilities when multi-version information about a subject system is available. The tool allows sharing and discovering the results of previous analysis sessions through a global repository of architectural views indexed by systems.

We present the features of the tool together with the architecture recovery process that it supports using as a case-study ArgoUML, a well-known open source Java system.