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A Platform for the Automated Provisioning of Architecture Information for Large-Scale Service-Oriented Software Systems

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Abstract

Providing valid architecture information to stakeholders remains a challenge, as the effort required for documenting and maintaining this information over a longer period of time is very high. Automatically and continuously extracting architecture information from the system implementation makes it possible to document and keep architecture information up-to-date. In large software systems, architecture extraction has to deal with the continuous and efficient extraction of architectural information from very large code bases. In cooperation with a company from the financial sector, we have developed over several years a platform for the automatic extraction and provision of architectural information for large-scale service-oriented software systems. The platform was evaluated in a real industrial environment. The results of this evaluation show that it can provide up-to-date architectural information for large code bases on a daily basis. It also provides information on the trustworthiness of the extracted information and how it can be improved.

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The research reported in this paper was supported by the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology, the Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs, and the Province of Upper Austria in the frame of the COMET center SCCH.

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  1. Software Competence Center Hagenberg GmbH, Hagenberg im Mühlkreis, Austria

    Georg Buchgeher

  2. Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

    Rainer Weinreich

  3. Raiffeisen Software GmbH, Linz, Austria

    Heinz Huber

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  1. King Juan Carlos University, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain

    Carlos E. Cuesta

  2. School of Computer Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    David Garlan

  3. Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Jennifer Pérez

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Buchgeher, G., Weinreich, R., Huber, H. (2018). A Platform for the Automated Provisioning of Architecture Information for Large-Scale Service-Oriented Software Systems. In: Cuesta, C., Garlan, D., Pérez, J. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11048. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00761-4_14

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