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Adapting Heterogeneous ADLs for Software Architecture Reconstruction Tools

Authors:
Dung Le
Ana Nicolaescu
Horst Lichter

Keywords: Software Architecture; Architecture Reconstruction; Model-To-Model Transformation; Architecture Description Language; Unified Modeling Language.

Abstract:
Architecture reconstruction tools were proposed to enable the extraction of descriptive architecture models based on prescriptive input models. A limitation of these tools is that they employ specific meta-models to which the input prescriptive models must adhere. These are often incompatible with the languages or notations that architects use in practice, leading to substantial effort to overcome terminology differences, to transform possibly already existing prescriptive models in tool-compatible ones and interpreting the results. To alleviate this problem we propose to leverage model engineering techniques in order to enable heterogeneous prescriptive and descriptive models as input and output artifacts of reconstruction tools. We exemplify our proposal by extending the Architecture Analysis and Monitoring Infrastructure (ARAMIS) - an approach developed within our previous work for the reconstruction and evolution of software architectures with a strong focus on the behavior view.

Pages: 52 to 55

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: November 15, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-438-1

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from November 15, 2015 to November 20, 2015