Reverse engineerifng to recover and describe a systems's architecture

摘要

The increasng intersest in the software architecure of systems stems from the need to geenrate product families.,to faciliate the reuse of components.to better understand systems and to redocument them.This paper introduces our approach to recover and describe a system's architecure: different aspects of a system (i.e. achitectural properties) are recovered and then described.The recovery process focuses on architectural properties,such as safety and variance and their description,but not on the recovery of a complete system's archtecture.Such a property-driven recovery allows to incrementally investigate those aspects of a system that are of special interest for the recovery purpose.Additionally the paper presents our architecutre recovery framwork and process,and an example illustrating the applciability of our framework.