Author
Saydemir, Abdullah, Simitcioğlu, Muhammed Esad, Sözer, Hasan
Publication Date
2021
Publication Place
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IEEE
Subject
Empirical software engineering, Evolutionary coupling, Program comprehension, Software architecture reconstruction, Software architecture recovery, Software maintenance
Type
Document
Language
English
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
978-166541070-0
Record ID
0ba7d29e-97fd-439f-bc35-2fb3f7b71a82
Library Location
Computer Science
Date
2021
Sample Text
Software architecture documentation can be partially obtained automatically by means of software architecture recovery tools. These tools mainly cluster software modules to provide a high level structural organization of these modules. They use dependency graphs as input. These graphs reflect various types of coupling among software modules. In this paper, we present an empirical evaluation of using evolutionary coupling as a complementary source of information for software architecture recovery. We use 3 open source projects as subject systems. We derive inter-module dependencies for these systems based on various levels of evolutionary coupling among their modules. We investigate the accuracy of software architecture recovery when input dependency graphs are extended with these additional dependencies. Results show that involving evolutionary coupling in the process can increase the accuracy of architecture recovery by up to 40%.
DOI
10.1109/UYMS54260.2021.9659761
