The first activity when humans approach the task of understanding a program is trying to discover its high level structure, that is identifying its subsystems and their relations: in few words, the software architecture of the system. In this paper, an approach for the architectural analysis of software systems, together with an environment implementing the approach, are described. The approach is based on a hierarchical architectural domain model that drives the application of a set of architectural recognizers. Each recognizer builds an abstract view describing some architectural aspects of the system, or of some of its parts. The implementation of the environment supporting the architectural analysis process described is currently in progress
Understanding the Architecture of Software Systems
Tonella, Paolo
1995-01-01
Abstract
The first activity when humans approach the task of understanding a program is trying to discover its high level structure, that is identifying its subsystems and their relations: in few words, the software architecture of the system. In this paper, an approach for the architectural analysis of software systems, together with an environment implementing the approach, are described. The approach is based on a hierarchical architectural domain model that drives the application of a set of architectural recognizers. Each recognizer builds an abstract view describing some architectural aspects of the system, or of some of its parts. The implementation of the environment supporting the architectural analysis process described is currently in progressI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
