Architecture Analysis and Repair of Open Source Software
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چکیده
As a software system evolves, its architecture will drift. System changes are often done without considering their e ects on the system structure. Consequently, the concrete (as-built) architecture becomes convoluted over time making continuing development and maintenance activities increasingly di cult and highly error prone. This problem of architectural drift is especially pronounced in open source systems, where many developers may work in isolation on distinct features with little co-ordination. In this paper, we present our experiences with analyzing and repairing the architectures of two large open source systems: the Linux operating system kernel and the VIM text editor. For both systems, we were successful in removing many structural anomalies from their architectures.
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