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Static Analysis Based Software Architecture Recovery

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Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006 (ICCSA 2006)

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Recover the software architectures is a key step in the reengineering legacy (procedural) programs into an object-oriented platform. Identifying, extracting and reengineering software architectures that implement abstractions within existing systems is a promising cost-effective way to create reusable assets and reengineer legacy systems. We introduce a new approach to recover software architectures in legacy systems. The approach described in this paper concentrate especially on how to find software architectures and on how to establish the relationships of the identified software components. This paper summarizes our experiences with using computer-supported methods to facilitate the reuse of the software architectures of the legacy systems by recovering the behavior of the systems using systematic methods, and illustrate their use in the context of the Janus System.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Jiang Guo, Yuehong Liao & Raj Pamula

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina Gavrilova

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  4. OptimaNumerics Ltd., Cathedral House, 23-31 Waring Street, BT1 2DX, Belfast, UK

    C. J. Kenneth Tan

  5. Clayton School of IT, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, Australia

    David Taniar

  6. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganá

  7. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

    Youngsong Mun

  8. School of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

    Hyunseung Choo

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Guo, J., Liao, Y., Pamula, R. (2006). Static Analysis Based Software Architecture Recovery. In: Gavrilova, M., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006. ICCSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3982. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751595_102

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