NDLI: Quality of the Source Code for Design and Architecture Recovery Techniques: Utilities are the Problem

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Pirzadeh, H. Alawneh, L. Hamou-Lhadj, A.
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Software maintenance is perhaps one of the most difficult activities in software engineering, especially for systems that have undergone several years of ad hoc maintenance. The problem is that, for such systems, the gap between the system implementation and its design models tend to be considerably large. Reverse engineering techniques, particularly the ones that focus on design and architecture recovery, aim to reduce this gap by recovering high-level design views from the source code. The course code becomes then the data on which these techniques operate. In this paper, we argue that the quality of a design and architecture recovery approach depends significantly on the ability to detect and eliminate the unwanted noise in the source code. We characterize this noise as being the system utility components that tend to encumber the system structure and hinder the ability to effectively recover adequate design views of the system. We support our argument by presenting various design and architecture recovery studies that have been shown to be successful because of their ability to filter out utility components. We also present existing automatic utility detection techniques along with the challenges that remain unaddressed.
Starting Page	465
Ending Page	469
File Size	212559
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424459124
ISSN	15506002
e-ISBN	9781424459131
DOI	10.1109/QSIC.2009.69
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-08-24
Publisher Place	Korea (South)
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Computer architecture Software maintenance Documentation Software quality Software engineering Reverse engineering Filters Software systems Process design Information resources utility components Design and architecture recovery quality of the source code in software maintenance
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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