Slicing for Architectural Analysis

Citation:
Rodrigues N, Barbosa LS.  2010.  Slicing for Architectural Analysis. Science of Computer Programming . 75(10):828–847.

Abstract:

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.
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.

Citation Key:

RB10

DOI:

10.1016/j.scico.2010.02.002

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