Architecture Design Recovery of a Family of Embedded Software Systems

• Understandability of the current system is a key issue in most reengineering processes. An architecture description of the system may increase its understandability. This paper presents experiences from architectural design recovery in a product family of large distributed, embedded systems. Automated recovery tools were hard to apply due to the nature of the source code. A qualitative evaluation procedure was applied on the performance of the recovery process. The results suggest that producing the necessary architectural documentation during the recovery project costs eight to twelve times as much as producing the same set of documentation during the original development project. By applying a common architectural style for all members of the product family, the component reuse made possible decreased source code volume by 65%.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Programvaruteknik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Software Engineering (hsv//eng)

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