Multiple viewpoints architecture extraction

A software system's architecture, its elements and the way they interact, constitute valuable assets for comprehending the system. Many approaches have been developed to help comprehending software systems in different manners. Most of them focus on structural aspects. We believe offering multiple views of the same system, using domain knowledge helps understanding a software system as whole. To correlate domain information and existing software systems, different viewpoints are considered and modelled. Viewpoints guide the extraction of architectural views, the later representing different system facets. We propose a recursive framework, an approach that expresses domain knowledge as viewpoints to guide the extraction process. It provides multiple architectural views according to multiple given viewpoints.

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