Paper Info
Title
Middleware And Multicore Architecture: Challenges And Potential Enhancements From Software Engineering Perspective
Abstract
An empirical study that examines challenges middleware software systems have to take full advantages of multicore technology is presented. The study is conducted on 9 open source middleware systems containing over 3.39 million lines of code. Each system is analyzed and the inhibitors to parallelization are detected and presented. Additionally, some challenges in analyzing, adapting, and re-engineering middleware systems to better utilize modern multi-core architectures are determined including function side effects. Function side effects categorized based on their types and the complexity they pose in conducting inter-procedural static analysis. The data shows that the most prevalent inhibitor by far is functions called within forloops that have side effects. Moreover, the study shows that parameters by reference and global variables modification are the most prevalent side effects that poses the greatest challenges in reengineering middleware systems to improve their parallelizability to better utilize multi-core architectures. That is, conducting accurate program analysis with existing software engineering tools becomes exigent and impractical with those side effects. The study suggests some software engineering techniques (e.g., refactoring) that have the potential to improve the parallelizability of middleware systems.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2016
2016 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ELECTRO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (EIT)
Middleware, software engineering, multicore architecture, parallelization inhibitors, function side effects
Field
DocType
ISSN
Middleware,Computer architecture,Middleware (distributed applications),Software engineering,Computer science,Software system,Software construction,Code refactoring,Software development,Global variable,Source lines of code
Conference
2154-0357
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
saleh m alnaeli163.30
Amanda D. Ali Taha200.68
Sam B. Binder300.34