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1. An Architecture for Toolbox-based Software
Architecture Reconstruction Solutions
Ana Dragomir, M. Firdaus Harun and Horst Lichter
{ana.dragomir, firdaus.harun, horst.lichter}@swc.rwth-aachen.de
• Motivation
• Related Work
• Current State of the Practice
• Improvement Potentials
• Our Vision - ARAMIS
• An ARAMIS Instantiation

2. • Up-to-date architecture views aid software architecture migration
and modernization activities.
• Understanding the dependencies of the various software systems and internals
of each system in isolation.
• Experience with 2 industry cooperation partners
• Continuous effort to ensure the consistencies between intended architectures
and implemented architectures.
Motivation

3. • High-level architectural elements and communication rules between
them
• Software architecture metrics
• Evolution of reconstructed architecture
Related Work

4. Current State-of-the-Practice
Large Company SME Company
• >1000 IT employees
• CMMI level 3 certified
• Insurance
• >200 developers
• Employ internal process
• Energy management consultation
• Missing traceability links:
Architecture decisions
documentation unconnected to
architecture documentation.
• Architecture reconstruction and
monitoring not employed:
Manual maintenance in visualizing
information flows between
applications.
• Missing traceability links:
Architecture documentation and
software artifacts / source code
were unconnected.
• Different terminologies:
The terminology imposed by the
employed architecture
reconstruction tool lead to
misunderstandings (it was not
accepted by the architects).
2 Industry Cooperation Partners

5. 6 Improvement Potentials
Traceability
Links
Common
Terminology
Metrics
Variant Building Scalability and
Heterogeneity

6. Our Vision …
Architecture Monitoring and Analysis Infrastructure (ARAMIS)
• Architecture Information Collector
• Extract and abstract software
artifacts from heterogeneous
software landscape.
• Architecture Repository
• Store the collected information.
• Architecture Information Provider
• Provide relevant data or
information to specified plugins.
• Architecture Modeling Language
Family
• Corpus of various architecture
description languages used in
various projects (and their
relations).

7. ARAMIS Instantiation
ARAMIS-Run Time
Running Software System
Aspect Weaver
Instrumented Running Software System
Web-based
Visualization
Architectural Enhancer
Violation Detector
Java System
Java
Architecture Information
Collector
Architecture
Modelling
Language
Sequence Diagram
Visualization
Plug-inViolation Analysis
Plug-in
Architecture
Information
Provider

8. • Aim: to improve the state-of-the art of architecture reconstructions
and to achieve a better industry acceptance thereof.
Summary
Thank you for your attention
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9. • A. Dragomir, F. Harun, H. Lichter (2014): On Bridging the Gap
between Practice and Vision for Software Architecture Reconstruction
and Evolution- A Tool Perspective. In SAEroCon, First Workshop on
Software Architecture Erosion and Architectural Consistency, co-
located with the Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software
Architecture (WICSA) 2014, Sydney, Australia, April 8, 2014.
• A. Dragomir, H. Lichter (2013): Run-time Monitoring and Real-time
Visualization of Software Architectures. In 20th Asia-Pacific Software
Engineering Conference (APSEC 2013),Pullman Bangkok King Power
Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand, December 2-5, 2013 (to be published).
• A. Dragomir, H. Lichter (2012): Model-Based Software Architecture
Evolution and Evaluation. In Software Engineering Conference
(APSEC), 2012 19th Asia-Pacific, Vol. 1, 697-700.
Reference