Modelling and Extracting the Build-Time Software Architecture View
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Large software systems often have complex subparts that engage in subtle relationships with the underlying technologies from which they are built. Consequently, many such systems have complex and interesting architectural properties that can only be understood in the context of the various phases of system construction. We consider that modelling and extracting build-time architectural views of such systems are key to the software comprehension process. In this paper, we explore the notion of build-time architectural views and their relationship to well-known taxonomies of software architecture views. We present a simple notation for modelling build-time views, we present three detailed examples of systems with interesting build-time view, and we introduce a related architectural style — the “code robot”. Finally, we discuss some of our recent work in the design of a toolkit for extracting and modelling build-time architectural views.
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