Refining the Architecture Recovery Approach ArchMine by Incrementally Performing Evaluation Studies
Resumo
Several architecture recovery approaches have been proposed in the literature with distinct goals. ArchMine, an architecture recovery approach based on dynamic analysis and data mining, aims to assist in program understanding and software reuse by detecting cohesive classes that implement a set of related functionalities, i.e. architectural elements. It is supported by a tool set integrated into a reuse based software development environment. The approach and its tool set have been detailed in previous works. The focus of this paper is to describe how ArchMine and its tool set were evaluated and refined through a series of evaluation studies. These evaluations allowed to gradually refine the approach based on the lessons learned.
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BOJIC, D., VELASEVIC, D., 2000, "A Use-Case Driven Method of Architecture Recovery for Program Understanding and Reuse Reengineering". In: 4th CSMR, pp. 23-31, Zuriq, Swiss, February/March.
CORREA, A.L., WERNER, C.M.L., 2004, "Applying Refactoring Techniques to UML/OCL Models". In: International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language (UML'04), pp. 173-187, Lisbon, Portugal, October.
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KAZMAN, R., BASS, L., G., A., et al., 1994, "SAAM: a Method for Analyzing the Properties of Software Architectures". In: International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), pp. 81-90, Sorrento, Italy, May.
KAZMAN, R., CARRIÈRE, S.J., 1997, Playing Detective: Reconstructing Software Architecture from Available Evidence, Technical Report CMU/SEI-97-TR-010.
KAZMAN, R., KLEIN, M., CLEMENTS, P., 2000, ATAM: Method for Architecture Evaluation, CMU/SEI, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-2000-TR-004.
LIMA, M.J.D., URURAHY, C., et al., 2006, "CSBase: A Framework for Building Customized Grid Environments". In: Third International Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Next-generation GRID, pp. 187-192, Manchester, UK, January.
MITCHELL, B.S., MANCORIDIS, S., 2006, "On the Automatic Modularization of Software Systems Using the Bunch Tool", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v. 32, n. 3 (March), pp. 193-208.
MURTA, L.G.P., et al. 2006, "ArchTrace: Policy-Based Support for Managing Evolving Architecture-to-Implementation Traceability Links". In: International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), pp. 135-144, Tokyo, Japan, September.
O'BRIEN, L., STOERMER, C., 2003, Architecture Reconstruction Case Study, Software Engineering Institute, Technical Note CMU/SEI-2003-TN-008.
ODYSSEY, 2007, "Odyssey: Software Reuse Infrastructure based on Domain Models". In: http://reuse.cos.ufrj.br/site/en/, accessed in May.
SAMETINGER, J., 1997, Software Engineering with Reusable Components, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.
SARTIPI, K., 2003, Software Architecture Recovery based on Pattern Matching, PhD Thesis, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo.
SCHMERL, B., et al., 2006, "Discovering Architectures from Running Systems", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v. 32, n. 7 (July), pp. 454-466.
TZERPOS, V., 2001, Comprehension-Driven Software Clustering, PhD, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
VASCONCELOS, A.P.V., 2007, An Approach to Support the Creation of Domain Reference Architectures based on Legacy Systems Analysis, PhD Thesis, COPPE, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, April, In Portuguese.
VASCONCELOS, A.P.V., WERNER, C.M.L., 2007a, "Architectural Elements Recovery and Quality Evaluation to Assist in Reference Architectures Specification". In: 19th SEKE Conference (SEKE'2007), pp. 494-499, Boston, USA, July.
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WOHLIN, C., RUNESON, P., HÖST, M., et al., 2000, Experimentation in Software Engineering: an Introduction, USA, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Publicado
13/10/2008
Como Citar
VASCONCELOS, Aline; WERNER, Cláudia.
Refining the Architecture Recovery Approach ArchMine by Incrementally Performing Evaluation Studies. In: SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE ENGENHARIA DE SOFTWARE (SBES), 22. , 2008, Campinas.
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Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação,
2008
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p. 172-187.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbes.2008.21331.
