Discovering architectures from running systems

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 454-466

  Schmerl, Bradley ^a   Aldrich, Jonathan ^a   Garlan, David ^a   Kazman, Rick ^b,c   Yan, Hong ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Architecture design tools and analyses; Reverse engineering; Software architecture discovery

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL OPERATIONS; ARCHITECTURE DESIGN TOOLS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE DISCOVERY;

PETRI NETS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); REVERSE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 33947144602     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2006.66     Document Type: Article

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