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Architecture recovery aims at providing a high level abstraction of a system using the architectural elements to represent functionalities and interactions. This architecture makes easier the program comprehension and then provides many advantages during all the phases of software life cycle. Nevertheless, most architecture recovery approaches fail to combine the human expertise on the system with a high automation level. In order to solve this issue, we propose to use the intentional architecture of a system, which represent the system as imagined by its designers, to improve the adequation between the resulting software architecture and the architect’s expectations without requiring more human expertise. Thus, we present in this paper a semi-automatic process to recover intentional architecture from the available documentation and the expert recommendations. This process is an extension of ROMANTIC, an approach aiming at recovering a component-based architecture of an existing object-oriented system.
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Chardigny, S., Seriai, A. (2010). Software Architecture Recovery Process Based on Object-Oriented Source Code and Documentation. In: Babar, M.A., Gorton, I. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15114-9_35
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