Software System Understanding via Architectural Views Extraction According to Multiple Viewpoints

Azadeh Razavizadeh (1) , Sorana Cimpan (1) , Hervé́ Verjus (1) , Sté́phane Ducasse (2)

1 LISTIC - Laboratoire d'Informatique, Systèmes, Traitement de l'Information et de la Connaissance
2 RMOD - Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution

Changes and evolution of software systems constantly gener- ate new challenges for the recovery of software systems architectures. A system's architecture, together with its elements and the way they inter- act, constitute valuable assets for understanding the system. We believe that offering multiple architectural views of a given system, using domain and pattern knowledge enhance understanding of the software system as a whole. To correlate different sources of information and existing soft- ware system, different viewpoints are considered. Viewpoints enable one to model such information and guide the extraction algorithms to ex- tract multiple architectural views. We propose a recursive framework, an approach that expresses different kinds of information as viewpoints to guide the extraction process. These multiple viewpoints models al- low considering architectural, conceptual, and structural aspects of the system.

Mots clés: Software architecture; evolution; view; viewpoints; rearchitecture

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Azadeh Razavizadeh, Sorana Cimpan, Hervé́ Verjus, Sté́phane Ducasse. Software System Understanding via Architectural Views Extraction According to Multiple Viewpoints. 8th International Workshop on System/Software Architectures, Nov 2009, Algarve, Portugal. pp.433-442, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-05290-3_55⟩. ⟨hal-00561183⟩