Slicing for architectural analysis

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. Key words: Program analysis, architectural recovery, coordination.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: SCP
• Authors: Nuno F. Rodrigues, Luís Soares Barbosa
• Keywords: Communications, Non Trivial Coordination, SCP 2010, Source Code, Typical Coordination Patterns