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Abstract | ||
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Architectural recovery techniques analyze a software system's implementation-level artifacts to suggest its likely architecture. However, different techniques will often suggest different architectures for the same system, making it difficult to interpret these results and determine the best technique without significant human intervention. Researchers have tried to assess the quality of recovery techniques by comparing their results with authoritative recoveries: meticulous, labor-intensive recoveries of existing well-known systems in which one or more engineers is integrally involved. However, these engineers are usually not a system's original architects or even developers. This carries the risk that the authoritative recoveries may miss domain-, application-, and system context-specific information. To deal with this problem, we propose a framework comprising a set of principles and a process for recovering a system's ground-truth architecture. The proposed recovery process ensures the accuracy of the obtained architecture by involving a given system's architect or engineer in a limited, but critical fashion. The application of our work has the potential to establish a set of "ground truths" for assessing existing and new architectural recovery techniques. We illustrate the framework on a case study involving Apache Hadoop. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2012 | 10.1109/WICSA-ECSA.212.48 | WICSA) and European Conference Software Architecture |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
software system,architectural recovery technique,proposed recovery process,recovery technique,different architecture,well-known system,architectural recovery,system context-specific information,labor-intensive recovery,new architectural recovery technique,authoritative recovery,computer architecture,software architecture,reliability,documentation,web servers,software maintenance | Database-centric architecture,Computer architecture,Systems engineering,Software engineering,Computer science,Software architecture description,Solution architecture,Systems architecture,Reference architecture,View model,Enterprise architecture framework,Architectural pattern | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-4673-2809-8 | 6 | 0.51 |
References | Authors | |
5 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joshua Garcia | 1 | 601 | 26.27 |
| Ivo Krka | 2 | 171 | 9.46 |
| Nenad Medvidovic | 3 | 4926 | 344.86 |
| Chris Douglas | 4 | 667 | 23.01 |