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The complexity of software systems is continuously growing across a wide range of application domains. System architects are often faced with large complex systems and systems whose semantics may be difficult to understand, hidden, or even still evolving. Raising the level of abstraction of such systems can significantly improve their usability.
We introduce System Grokking - a software architect assistance technology designed to support incremental and iterative user-driven understanding, validation, and evolution of complex software systems through higher levels of abstraction. The System Grokking technology enables semi-automatic discovery, manipulation, and visualization of groups of domain-specific software elements and the relationships between them to represent high-level structural and behavioral abstractions.
This work is partially supported by the European Community under the Information Society Technologies (IST) program of the 6th FP for RTD - project MODELPLEX contract IST-034081. The authors are solely responsible for the content of this paper.
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Goldstein, M., Moshkovich, D. (2009). System Grokking – A Novel Approach for Software Understanding, Validation, and Evolution. In: Feldman, Y.A., Kraft, D., Kuflik, T. (eds) Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems. NGITS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5831. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04941-5_6
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