A Platform for the automated provisioning of architecture information for large-scale service-oriented software systems

G. Buchgeher, R. Weinreich, H. Huber. A Platform for the automated provisioning of architecture information for large-scale service-oriented software systems. volume 11048, pages 203-218, DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-00761-4_14, 9, 2018.

Autoren
  • Georg Buchgeher
  • Rainer Weinreich
  • Heinz Huber
Editoren
  • Carlos E. Cuesta
  • David Garlan
  • Jennifer Pérez
BuchSoftware Architecture - Proc. ECSA 2018
TypIn Konferenzband
VerlagSpringer
SerieLecture Notes in Computer Science
Band11048
DOI10.1007/978-3-030-00761-4_14
ISBN978-3-030-00760-7
Monat9
Jahr2018
Seiten203-218
Abstract

Providing valid architecture information to stakeholders remains a challenge, as the effort required for documenting and maintaining this information over a longer period of time is very high. Automatically and continuously extracting architecture information from the system implementation makes it possible to document and keep architecture information up-to-date. In large software systems, architecture extraction has to deal with the continuous and efficient extraction of architectural information from very large code bases. In cooperation with a company from the financial sector, we have developed over several years a platform for the automatic extraction and provision of architectural information for large-scale service-oriented software systems. The platform was evaluated in a real industrial environment. The results of this evaluation show that it can provide up-to-date architectural information for large code bases on a daily basis. It also provides information on the trustworthiness of the extracted information and how it can be improved.