Architecture-Oriented Visualization (1996)
| Venue: | In Proc. of the eleventh annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications |
| Citations: | 27 - 3 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Sefika96architecture-orientedvisualization,
author = {Mohlalefi Sefika and Aamod Sane and Roy H. Campbell},
title = {Architecture-Oriented Visualization},
booktitle = {In Proc. of the eleventh annual conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications},
year = {1996},
pages = {389--405},
publisher = {ACM Press}
}
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Abstract
Tracking the changing dynamics of object-oriented frameworks[5], design patterns[7], architectural styles[8], and subsystems during the development and reuse cycle can aid producing complex systems. Unfortunately, current object-oriented programming tools are relatively oblivious to the rich architectural abstractions in a system. This paper shows that architecture-oriented visualization, the graphical presentation of system statics and dynamics in terms of its architectural abstractions, is highly beneficial in designing complex systems. In addition, the paper presents architecture-aware instrumentation, a new technique for building efficient on-line instrumentation to support architectural queries. We demonstrate the effectiveness and performance of the scheme with case studies in the design of the Choices object-oriented operating system. 1 Introduction Designers conceive complex systems as architectures with design patterns[7], frameworks[5], architectural styles[8], and subsyste...
