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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Inferring Architectural Evolution from Source Code Analysis

A Tool-Supported Approach for the Detection of Architectural Tactics

Authors : Christel Kapto, Ghizlane El Boussaidi, Sègla Kpodjedo, Chouki Tibermacine

Published in: Software Architecture

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Several approaches have been proposed to study and provide information about the evolution of a software system, but very few proposals analyze and interpret this information at the architectural level. In this paper, we propose an approach that supports the understanding of software evolution at the architectural level. Our approach relies on the idea that an architectural tactic can be mapped to a number of operational representations, each of which is a transformation described using a set of elementary actions on source code entities (e.g., adding a package, moving a class from a package to another, etc.). These operational representations make it possible to: (1) detect architectural tactics’ application (or cancellation) by analyzing different versions of the source code of analyzed systems, and (2) understand the architectural evolution of these systems. To evaluate the proposed approach, we carried out a case study on the JFreeChart open source software. We focused on the modifiability tactics and we analyzed a number of available releases of JFreeChart. The results of our analysis revealed inconsistencies in the evolution of the system and some erratic applications and cancellations of modifiability tactics.

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Footnotes
1
For lack of space, we do not discuss in this paper the predefined actions and constraints that TacMatch provides, nor the specification language used to describe the tactics.
 
2
Both the Selector and the filter classes have their own fields which are set during their respective instantiation using the command parameter received by their respective constructor.
 
3
In some tactics, the same filter class can be instantiated more than once using different parameters (i.e., commands). Moreover, we use a filter class to instantiate a constraint or its opposite depending on the tactic’s definition.
 
4
In this three sequence-based schema, the first sequence is the major number (incremented when there are significant changes to the system), the second sequence is the minor number (incremented when there are minor changes to the system or significant bug fixes) and the last sequence is the revision number (incremented when minor bugs were fixed).
 
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Metadata
Title
Inferring Architectural Evolution from Source Code Analysis
Authors
Christel Kapto
Ghizlane El Boussaidi
Sègla Kpodjedo
Chouki Tibermacine
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Software Architecture

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-48991-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-48992-6

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48992-6_11

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