Tool support for just-in-time architecture reconstruction and evaluation: An experience report

Proceedings - 27th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE05

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 514-523

  Gorton, Ian ^a   Zhu, Liming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Architecture Evaluation; Architecture Reconstruction; Case Tools; Reverse Engineering; Software Architecture

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION; ARCHITECTURE RECONSTRUCTION; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; CRITICAL ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS; POTENTIAL DESIGN IRREGULARITIES;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; REVERSE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 33244473980     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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