Recent research suggests that large software systems should have a documented system architecture. One form of documentation that may help describe the structure of software syste...
A number of standalone tools are designed to help developers understand software systems. These tools operate at different levels of abstraction, from low level source code to sof...
Ivan T. Bowman, Michael W. Godfrey, Richard C. Hol...
Documentation generation is the process of creating the ocumentation at different levels of abstraction from the source code for a legacy system. The main goal is to help the stak...
Object-oriented languages such as Java, Smalltalk, and C++ structure their programs using packages, allowing classes to be organized into named abstractions. Maintainers of large ...
In this paper we describe our approach to reconstructing the software architecture of J2EE web applications. We use the Siemens Four Views approach, separating the architecture in...