A Unified Framework for Expressing Software Subsystem Classification Techniques (1996)
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@MISC{Lakhotia96aunified,
author = {Arun Lakhotia},
title = {A Unified Framework for Expressing Software Subsystem Classification Techniques},
year = {1996}
}
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Abstract
The architecture of a software system classifies its components into subsystems and describes the relationships between the subsystems. The information contained in such an abstraction is of immense significance in various software maintenance activities. There is considerable interest in extracting the architecture of a software system from its source code, and hence in techniques that classify the components of a program into subsystems. Techniques for classifying subsystems presented in the literature differ in the type of components they place in a subsystem and the information they use to identify related components. However, these techniques have been presented using different terminology and symbols, making it harder to perform comparative analyses. This paper presents a unified framework for expressing techniques of classifying subsystems of a software system. The framework consists of a consistent set of terminology, notation, and symbols that may be used to describe the input, output, and processing performed by these techniques. Using this framework several subsystem classification techniques have been reformulated. This reformulation makes it easier to compare these techniques, a first step towards evaluating their relative effectiveness.
