Symphony view-driven software architecture reconstruction amendments

Several amendments have subsequently been made to this. To describe symphony, we present and compare different case studies, thus serving a secondary goal of sharing reallife reconstruction experience. Architectural decay is caused by repeated, sometimes careless changes to a system during its lifespan. Software architecture refers to the fundamental structures of a software system and the. A profilebased approach for maintaining software architecture. Software architecture reconstruction is the process of. From its very inception, the study of software architecture has recognized architectural decay as a regularly occurring phenomenon in longlived systems. Software architecture reconstruction method, a survey thesai org. Atrium software architecture driven by requirements. Symphony provides a common framework for reporting reconstruction experiences and for comparingreconstruction approaches.

The symphony process incorporates the state of the practice, where reconstruction is problemdriven and uses a rich set of architecture views. Reverse engineering of program code is the process of constructing a higher level of abstraction of an implementation in order to facilitate the understanding of a software system. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Senate papers web page at south dakota state university in brookings, south dakota. Despite decays prevalence, there is a relative dearth of empirical data regarding the nature of architectural changes that may lead to. A method for ontologybased architecture reconstruction of. Finally, it is a vehicle for exposing and demarcating research problems in software architecture reconstruction.

Claudio rivas research works nokia research center nrc. Symphony provides a common framework for reporting reconstruction experiences and for comparing reconstruction approaches. Introduction manysoftware engineeringtasks are hard to conductwithout. In this paper we describe viewdriven process for reconstructing software architecture that fills this gap. Far too often, architecture descriptions of existing systems are out of sync with the implementation. Another way to reuse software architecture evolution.

Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. Software architecture reconstruction computer science, vrije. Authentic descriptions of a software architecture are required as a reliable foundation for any but trivial changes to a system. Abstractarchitecture reconstruction belongs to a reverse engineering. Viewdriven software architecture reconstruction, proc. Hierarchical clustering for software architecture recovery ieee. Introduction many software engineering tasks are hard to conduct without. Our software architecture reconstruction framework for modifying. A largescale study of architectural evolution in open. Symphony 4, 5 outlines a viewdriven software architecture reconstruction.

These separate descriptions are called architectural views see for example the. Arie van deursen, christine hofmeister, rainer koschke, leon moonen, claudio riva. Software architecture reconstruction ren e leo krikhaar. Software architecture recovery or reconstruction, or reverse engineering. Symphony is a process model for reconstructing software architecture views. Riva proposed a viewbased sar approach called nimeta based on symphony. Some sources of input for reconstruction the system itself metamodels traces obtained by executing the system symphony software architecture is usually described in terms of models and the associated rationales. Dissertation viewbased software architecture reconstruction.