Reengineering of Component-Based Software Systems in the Presence of Design Deficiencies - An Overview

In reengineering, up-to-date architecture models are important artifacts to get an overview of a system and to plan and execute the necessary reengineering activities. If such models do not exist, software architecture reconstruction (SAR) techniques can be used to recover them from the system’s source code. However, design deficiencies like Interface Violations can influence the architecture reconstruction and thereby adulterate the recovered architecture. This is currently not addressed by SAR approaches. Archimetrix is an iterative reengineering process that was developed in a PhD thesis at the University of Paderborn [5]. It aims at detecting and removing design deficiencies which influence the architecture reconstruction and thereby enable the recovery of more accurate architecture models.