Slicing for architectural analysis

• Author(s): Rodrigues, Nuno F. ; Barbosa, L. S.
• Date: 2010
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/12250
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Program analysis; Coordination; Architectural recovery
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

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.