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Visualising architectural dependencies

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Brondum, J. Liming Zhu
Copyright Year	2012
Description	Author affiliation: NICTA and UNSW, Sydney, Australia (Brondum, J.; Liming Zhu)
Abstract	Visibility of technical debt is critical. A lack thereof can lead to significant problems without adequate visibility as part of the system level decision-making processes [2]. Current approaches for analysing and monitoring architecture related debt are based on dependency analysis to detect code level violations of the software architecture [2,3,6]. However, heterogeneous environments with several systems constructed using OTS, and/or several programming languages may not offer sufficient code visibility. Other limiting factors include legal contracts, Intellectual Property Rights, and just very large systems. Secondly, the complexity of a software dependency is often greater than simple structural dependencies, including; multi-dimensional properties (as argued by [10]); behavioural dependencies [5,9]; and ‘implicit’ dependencies (i.e., dependency inter-relatedness [11]). This paper proposes a simple modelling approach for visualising dependency relationships as an extension of the current approaches, while supporting complex dependencies. The model can be built using existing dependency analysis and general architectural knowledge; thus is better suited for heterogeneous environments. We demonstrate the proposed modelling using an exemplar, and two field case studies.
Starting Page	7
Ending Page	14
File Size	1594700
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467317481
e-ISBN	9781467317498
DOI	10.1109/MTD.2012.6226003
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-06-05
Publisher Place	Switzerland
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Architectural Dependency Analysis Software Architecture Architectural Debt
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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