Paper Info
Title
On bridging the gap between practice and vision for software architecture reconstruction and evolution: a toolbox perspective
Abstract
Up-to-date architecture views help to better understand and meaningfully evolve software systems. Despite their importance, the views are typically either not defined or not monitored and updated when changes to the actual systems are performed. They thus become subject of continuous degradation. To reconstruct the views, architecture monitoring and reconstruction tools have been developed and proposed. However, according to our analysis of the state of the art and state of the practice, we have identified that existing tools still lack some important ingredients needed to meaningfully monitor and reconstruct the architecture description of software systems. This paper gives an insight of these improvement potentials and proposes a vision for the development of a stronger industry-oriented software architecture monitoring, reconstruction and evolution tool.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2578128.2578235
WICSA Companion
Keywords
Field
DocType
actual system,stronger industry-oriented software architecture,important ingredient,continuous degradation,software architecture reconstruction,architecture monitoring,up-to-date architecture view,architecture description,evolution tool,toolbox perspective,reconstruction tool,software system
Applications architecture,Software engineering,Software architecture description,Reference architecture,Resource-oriented architecture,Systems architecture,Software architecture,Engineering,Enterprise architecture framework,View model
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.43
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ana Dragomir1141.80
M. Firdaus Harun250.77
Horst Lichter325251.53