The role of coordination analysis in software integration projects

What sort of component coordination strategies emerge in a software integration process? How can such strategies be discovered and further analysed? How close are they to the coordination component of the envisaged architectural model which was supposed to guide the integration process? This paper i...

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Main Author: F. Rodrigues, Nuno (author)
Other Authors: Oliveira, Nuno (author), Barbosa, Luís S. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11110/503
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:ciencipca.ipca.pt:11110/503
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Summary:What sort of component coordination strategies emerge in a software integration process? How can such strategies be discovered and further analysed? How close are they to the coordination component of the envisaged architectural model which was supposed to guide the integration process? This paper introduces a framework in which such questions can be discussed and illustrates its use by describing part of a real case-study. The approach is based on a methodology which enables semi-automatic discovery of coordination patterns from source code, combining generalized slicing techniques and graph manipulation