Alborz: An Interactive Toolkit to Extract Static and Dynamic Views of a Software System

Alborz is a multi-view, interactive, and wizard-based software architecture reconstruction and evaluation toolkit that takes advantage of the Eclipse plug-in technology to provide feature extensibility, and uses GXL format to interoperate with other reverse engineering tools. The current version of Alborz toolkit supports static and dynamic views of a software system. For the static view, the toolkit extracts the structure of a software system using wizard-guided forms that allow to define the high-level view of the system. The static view represents abstract components and connectors which are then mapped onto the low-level source graph to find approximate matching within the software system. For the dynamic view, the toolkit extracts high-frequent execution patterns by running feature specific task scenarios on the software system. Subsequently, the implementations of the software features in the source code are identified as a means to evaluate the structure of software. The toolkit will be available as an Eclipse plug-in to serve the software reverse engineering community

[1]  Amir Michail,et al.  DRT: A tool for design recovery of interactive graphical applications , 2003, 25th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2003. Proceedings..

[2]  Kamran Sartipi,et al.  On modeling software architecture recovery as graph matching , 2003, International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2003. ICSM 2003. Proceedings..

[3]  Kamran Sartipi.  Alborz: a query-based tool for software architecture recovery , 2001, Proceedings 9th International Workshop on Program Comprehension. IWPC 2001.

[4]  Margaret-Anne D. Storey,et al.  SHriMP views: an interactive environment for exploring Java programs , 2001, Proceedings 9th International Workshop on Program Comprehension. IWPC 2001.

[5]  Spencer Rugaber,et al.  Using visualization for architectural localization and extraction , 2000, Sci. Comput. Program..

[6]  Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj,et al.  A survey of trace exploration tools and techniques , 2004, CASCON.

[7]  Emden R. Gansner,et al.  Using automatic clustering to produce high-level system organizations of source code , 1998, Proceedings. 6th International Workshop on Program Comprehension. IWPC'98 (Cat. No.98TB100242).

[8]  Liam O'Brien,et al.  Practice patterns for architecture reconstruction , 2002, Ninth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, 2002. Proceedings..