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Evaluation of Markov Models for Architecture Conformance Checking

Authors :
Rodríguez, Guillermo Horacio
Armentano, Marcelo Gabriel
Soria, Alvaro
Corengia, Emilio
Source :
CONICET Digital (CONICET), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, instacron:CONICET
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020.

Abstract

Conformance between architecture and implementation is a key aspect of architecture-centric development. However, the architecture as documented and the architecture as implemented tend to diverge from each other over time. Thus, conformance checks should be run periodically on the system in order to detect and correct differences. Despite having a structural conformance analysis, assessing whether the main scenarios describing the architectural behavior are faithfully implemented in the code is still challenging. Checking conformance to architectural scenarios is usually a time-consuming and error-prone activity. In this article, we describe ArchLearner, a tool to assist architects to bridge the gap between architecture and its implementation. The architecture is specified with Use-Case Maps (UCMs), a notation for modeling both high-level structure and behavior. ArchLearner uses Markov Models to detect code deviations with respect to predetermined UCMs, based on the analysis of system execution traces for those UCMs. The results from two case-studies have shown that ArchLearner is practical and reduces conformance checking efforts. Fil: Rodríguez, Guillermo Horacio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software; Argentina Fil: Armentano, Marcelo Gabriel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software; Argentina Fil: Soria, Alvaro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Tandil. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Instituto Superior de Ingeniería del Software; Argentina Fil: Corengia, Emilio. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas; Argentina

Details

Language :
Spanish; Castilian
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
CONICET Digital (CONICET), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, instacron:CONICET
Accession number :
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