Architecture Recovery in ARES (1996)
| Venue: | In Proc. 2nd ACM SIGSOFT Int. Software Architecture Workshop |
| Citations: | 7 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Gall96architecturerecovery,
author = {Harald Gall and Mehdi Jazayeri and René Klösch and Wolfgang Lugmayr and Georg Trausmuth},
title = {Architecture Recovery in ARES},
booktitle = {In Proc. 2nd ACM SIGSOFT Int. Software Architecture Workshop},
year = {1996},
pages = {111--115},
publisher = {ACM Press}
}
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Abstract
Recovering the architecture of legacy systems requires more than just reverse engineering tools to generate some higherlevel descriptions of the system under study. Design decisions and logical groupings of functions have to be balanced with informal domain knowledge, domain standards and coding guidelines of the developers. Therefore, we combine domain aspects with coding aspects and use reverse engineering tools as one means of recovering the requested information to reason about the underlying architecture of the system. This reasoning is an alternating top-down and bottom-up approach. The architecture recovery process we introduce is one part of the ESPRIT project ARES (Architectural Reasoning for Embedded Systems). 1 1 Introduction and Motivation Reverse engineering techniques are usually applied if information about an existing software system is required, for example, in case of corrective or adaptive maintenance. 2 The recovery of architectural information is different in t...
