Content

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  Introduction
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   Evolution of Business Information Systems
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   Reverse Engineering of Software Architectures
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   Problem Statement
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   Solution Overview
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   Application Scenarios
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   Scientific Contributions
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   Example System
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   Structure
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   Foundations and Related Work
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  Software Architecture Reconstruction
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   Terminology
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   Overview of the Methodology
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   Software Architecture Reconstruction in Archimetrix
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   Pattern Detection
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   Terminology
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   Overview of the Methodology
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   Pattern Detection in Archimetrix
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   Refactoring and Reengineering
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   Terminology
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   Reengineering in Archimetrix
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   Hybrid Reverse Engineering Approaches
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   Bad Smell Detection and Removal
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  Architecture Reengineering
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   Architecture Conformance Checking
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   Architecture Migration and Modernisation
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   Modularisation
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   Classification of the Archimetrix Approach
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   General Assumptions
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  Design Deficiencies
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   Types of Software Patterns
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   Describing Design Deficiencies
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   Running Example
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   Further Design Deficiencies
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  The Archimetrix Process
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   Contributions
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   Process Overview
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   Iterative Architecture Reconstruction
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   Design Deficiency Formalisation
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   Limitations
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  Influence of Deficiencies on the Architecture Reconstruction
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   Contributions
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   Reconstruction Process
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   Metrics
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   Strategies
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   Dependencies Between Metrics and Strategies
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  Influence of Design Deficiency Occurrences on the Metrics
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   Influence of the Transfer Object Ignorance Deficiency
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   Susceptibility of Different Metrics and Strategies
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   Influence of Other Design Deficiencies Occurrences
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   Result Model
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   Limitations
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   Conclusion
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  Component Relevance Analysis
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   Motivation
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   Contributions
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   Assumptions
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   Component Relevance
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   Relevance Metrics
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   Complexity Metric
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   Closeness to Threshold Metric
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   Relevance Calculation
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   Limitations
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   Related Approaches
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   Conclusion
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  Design Deficiency Detection
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   Contributions
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   Assumptions
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   Pattern Detection with Reclipse
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  Integration with the Architecture Reconstruction
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   Input Model for the Deficiency Detection
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   Auxiliary Component Patterns
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   Improved Trace Collection through Symbolic Execution
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   Shortcomings of Current Trace Collection
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   Systematic Trace Generation
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   Interpreting the Generated Traces
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   Related Approaches
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  Limitations
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   Limitations of the Deficiency Detection
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   Limitations of the Improved Trace Generation
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   Conclusion
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  Design Deficiency Ranking
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   Contributions
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   Assumptions
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  Ranking Metrics
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   Structural Accuracy Metric
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   Deficiency-Specific Ranking Metrics
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   Rank Calculation
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   Limitations
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   Related Approaches
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   Conclusion
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  Deficiency Removal
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   Contributions
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   Assumptions
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   Deficiency Removal Process
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   Manual Deficiency Removal
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   Removal Guides
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   Example
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   Automated Deficiency Removal
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   Removal Strategies
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   Behaviour Preservation
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   Propagating the Removal back to the Source Code
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   Architecture Preview
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   Related Approaches
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   Limitations
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   Conclusion
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  Validation
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  Prototype Implementation
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   Software Architecture
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   Example Session
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   Experiment Setup
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   Validation Questions
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   Case Studies
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  Threats to Validity
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   Threats to Internal Validity
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   Threats to External Validity
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  Case Study 1: Store Example
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   System Overview
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   Validation Results
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   Discussion
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  Case Study 2: Palladio Fileshare
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   System Overview
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   Validation Results
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   Discussion
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  Case Study 3: CoCoME
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   System Overview
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   Reference Implementation Validation Results
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   SOFA Implementation Validation Results
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   Discussion
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   Time and Effort
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   Level-II-Validation
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   Lessons Learned
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  Conclusion
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   Results and Conclusions
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   Future Research Challenges
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  Meta Models
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   Generalised Abstract Syntax Tree
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   Service Architecture Meta Model
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   Source Code Decorator
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  Design Deficiencies
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  Interface Violation
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   Design Deficiency Problem
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   Example
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   Influence on the Architecture Reconstruction
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   Removal Strategies
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   Formalisation
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  Unauthorised Call
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   Design Deficiency Problem
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   Example
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   Influence on the Architecture Reconstruction
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   Removal Strategies
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   Formalisation
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  Inheritance between Components
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   Design Deficiency Problem
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   Example
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   Influence on the Architecture Reconstruction
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   Removal Strategies
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   Formalisation
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   Clustering Configurations
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   List of Abbreviations
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   References
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   Own Publications
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   Supervised Theses
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   List of Figures
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   List of Tables
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   Index