%0 Journal Article
%J Science of Computer Programming
%D 2010
%T Slicing for Architectural Analysis
%A Nuno Rodrigues
%A Luis Soares Barbosa
%I Elsevier
%N 10
%P 828–847
%V 75
%X <p>Current software development often relies on non trivial coordination logic for combining autonomous services, eventually running on different platforms. As a rule, however, such a coordination layer is strongly weaved within the application at source code level. Therefore, its precise identification becomes a major methodological (and technical) problem and a challenge to any program understanding or refactoring process.<br />  The approach introduced in this paper resorts to slicing techniques to extract coordination data from source code. Such data is captured in a specific dependency graph structure from which a coordination model can be recovered either in the form of an Orc specification or as a collection of code fragments corresponding to the identification of typical coordination patterns in the system. Tool support is also discussed.</p>
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