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Architecture Recovery and Evaluation Aiming at Program Understanding and Reuse

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Software Architectures, Components, and Applications (QoSA 2007)

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Organizations use to have implemented systems that represent a large effort and budget invested in the past. These systems are evolved and adapted over time in order to accommodate technological and business changes. Moreover, big companies often develop similar systems within the same domain. This has been motivating them to migrate to reuse approaches, such as domain engineering and product line. However, existing systems in general don’t have up-to-date architectural documentation that can help in their maintenance and reuse. Considering this scenario, this paper presents an approach to architecture recovery and evaluation that aims at extracting knowledge from existing systems to help in their understanding and reuse. This extracted knowledge is represented through a recovered application architectural model composed by architectural elements that represent domain concepts traced to implemented functional requirements, which may help in generating reusable artifacts. In order to evaluate the approach feasibility, an experimental study was performed.

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  1. COPPE/UFRJ Systems Engineering and Computer Science Program, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, P.O. Box 68511, ZIP 21945-970, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Aline Vasconcelos & Cláudia Werner

  2. CEFET Campos - Federal Center for Technological Education of Campos, Dr. Siqueira, 273, ZIP 28030-130, Campos dos Goytacazes, RJ, Brazil

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  1. Dept. of Software Engineering and Business Information Systems, Augsburg University, Universitätsstraße 16, P.O. Box, 86135, Augsburg, Germany

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  2. Microsoft, USA

    Clemens A. Szyperski

  3. University of Karlsruhe, Am Fasanengarten 5, D-76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

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Vasconcelos, A., Werner, C. (2007). Architecture Recovery and Evaluation Aiming at Program Understanding and Reuse. In: Overhage, S., Szyperski, C.A., Reussner, R., Stafford, J.A. (eds) Software Architectures, Components, and Applications. QoSA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4880. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77619-2_5

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