Name
Title | ||
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An (architecture-centric) approach for tracing, organizing, and understanding events in event-based software architectures |
Abstract | ||
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Applications built in a strongly decoupled, event-based interaction style have many commendable characteristics, including ease of dynamic configuration, accommodation of platform heterogeneity, and ease of distribution over a network. It is not always easy, however, to humanly grasp the dynamic behavior of such applications, since many threads are active and events are asynchronously (and profusely) transmitted. This paper presents a novel, complete approach that aids in the understanding, debugging, and visualization of the behaviors of event-based applications. It applies to real, implemented systems, without requiring the presence of component source code, and supports partial or incomplete, heuristic behavior specifications. A prototype implementation of our approach was applied to two systems, including the prototype itself, indicating that our approach is feasible, scalable, and shows promising results in terms of increasing the understandability of these types of systems. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2005 | 10.1109/WPC.2005.6 | IWPC |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
program debugging,program diagnostics,program visualisation,reverse engineering,software architecture,architecture-centric approach,event-based interaction style,event-based software architecture,software debugging,software tracing,software understanding,software visualization | Computer architecture,Embedded software,Computer science,Source code,Software prototyping,Software architecture,Software visualization,Application software,Tracing,Debugging | Conference |
ISSN | ISBN | Citations |
1092-8138 | 0-7695-2254-8 | 5 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.46 | 13 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott A. Hendrickson | 1 | 74 | 5.23 |
| Eric M. Dashofy | 2 | 545 | 37.01 |
| Richard N. Taylor | 3 | 5395 | 482.75 |