Architecture Reconstruction Case Study

This report outlines an architecture reconstruction carried out at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) on a software system called VANISH that was developed for prototyping visualizations. The goals of the reconstruction were to understand the existing VANISH system and to use a new architecture reconstruction tool, called ARMIN, for the reconstruction, while ensuring that ARMIN has at least the same capabilities as the Dali Architecture Reconstruction Workbench.

During the reconstruction several architectural views were generated through abstraction of low-level information extracted from the system. These views show the components of the system and the interfaces among them. The ARMIN tool provides the ability to visualize, navigate, and manipulate the set of views generated, and yields results technically compatible with the Dali Workbench but with improved presentation and layout.

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Author

Christoph Stoermer

This report is related to the following area(s) of work:

Case Studies
Software Architecture

Technical Note
CMU/SEI-2003-TN-008
April 2003

Cite This Report

SEI:

Stoermer, Christoph; Architecture Reconstruction Case Study (CMU/SEI-2003-TN-008 ). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tn008.cfm

IEEE:

C. Stoermer, "Architecture Reconstruction Case Study," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Note CMU/SEI-2003-TN-008 , 2003. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tn008.cfm

APA:

Stoermer, C., (2003). Architecture Reconstruction Case Study (CMU/SEI-2003-TN-008 ). Retrieved May 18, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tn008.cfm

CHI:

Stoermer, Christoph, Architecture Reconstruction Case Study (CMU/SEI-2003-TN-008 ). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tn008.cfm

MLA:

Stoermer, C., 2003. Architecture Reconstruction Case Study (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2003-TN-008 ). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/03tn008.cfm

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