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Hierarchical Clustering for Software Architecture Recovery

Maqbool, O. ; Babri, H.A.

IEEE transactions on software engineering, 2007-11, Vol.33 (11), p.759-780 [Periódico revisado por pares]

New York: IEEE

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Hierarchical Clustering for Software Architecture Recovery
Autor: Maqbool, O. ; Babri, H.A.
Assuntos: Algorithm design and analysis ; Algorithms ; and reengineering ; arbitrary decisions ; Architecture ; Architecture (computers) ; architecture recovery ; Cluster analysis ; Clustering ; Clustering algorithms ; Computer architecture ; Computer programs ; hierarchical clustering ; Partitioning algorithms ; Recovery ; Restructuring ; Reverse engineering ; Similarity ; Software ; Software algorithms ; Software architecture ; Software Engineering ; Software measurement ; Software systems ; Studies ; Taxonomy
É parte de: IEEE transactions on software engineering, 2007-11, Vol.33 (11), p.759-780
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Descrição: Gaining an architectural level understanding of a software system is important for many reasons. When the description of a system's architecture does not exist, attempts must be made to recover it. In recent years, researchers have explored the use of clustering for recovering a software system's architecture, given only its source code. The main contributions of this paper are given as follows. First, we review hierarchical clustering research in the context of software architecture recovery and modularization. Second, to employ clustering meaningfully, it is necessary to understand the peculiarities of the software domain, as well as the behavior of clustering measures and algorithms in this domain. To this end, we provide a detailed analysis of the behavior of various similarity and distance measures that may be employed for software clustering. Third, we analyze the clustering process of various well-known clustering algorithms by using multiple criteria, and we show how arbitrary decisions taken by these algorithms during clustering affect the quality of their results. Finally, we present an analysis of two recently proposed clustering algorithms, revealing close similarities in their apparently different clustering approaches. Experiments on four legacy software systems provide insight into the behavior of well-known clustering algorithms and their characteristics in the software domain.
Editor: New York: IEEE
Idioma: Inglês

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Maqbool, O. ; Babri, H.A.

New York: IEEE

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