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Challenges in the Evolution of Palladio—Refactoring Design Smells in a Historically-Grown Approach to Software Architecture Analysis

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In this chapter, we provide insights into Palladio—a tool-supported approach to modelling and analysing software architectures. Palladio serves as a case study for the evolution of historically-grown approaches to model-based analysis. We report about design smells in Palladio’s metamodel and simulators caused by evolution and growth over several years. Design smells are structures that require refactoring. Decomposition is key for refactoring these design smells. We discuss how techniques for decomposition and purpose-oriented composition can help refactoring design smells in Palladio’s metamodel and simulators.

This case-study chapter illustrates concepts introduced in Chaps. 4 and 5; it addresses Challenge 1 and Challenge 2 in Chap. 3 of this book.

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Heinrich, R., Henss, J., Koch, S., Reussner, R. (2021). Challenges in the Evolution of Palladio—Refactoring Design Smells in a Historically-Grown Approach to Software Architecture Analysis. In: Heinrich, R., Durán, F., Talcott, C., Zschaler, S. (eds) Composing Model-Based Analysis Tools. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81915-6_11

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