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Software architecture model driven reverse engineering approach to open source software development

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William Kim,

Sam Chung,

Barbara Endicott-PopovskyAuthors Info & Claims

RIIT '14: Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Research in information technology

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2656434.2656440

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Popular Open Source Software (OSS) development platforms like GitHub, Google Code, and Bitbucket take advantage of some best practices of traditional software development like version control and issue tracking. Current major open source software environments, including IDE tools and online code repositories, do not provide support for visual architecture modeling. Research has shown that visual modeling of complex software projects has benefits throughout the software lifecycle. Then why is it that software architecture modeling is so conspicuously missing from popular online open source code repositories? How can including visual documentation improve the overall quality of open source software projects? Our goal is to answer both of these questions and bridge the gap between traditional software engineering best practices and open source development by applying a software architecture documentation methodology using Unified Modeling Language, called 5W1H Re-Doc, on a real open source project for managing identity and access, MITREid Connect. We analyze the effect of a model-driven software engineering approach on collaboration of open source contributors, quality of specification conformance, and state-of-the-art of architecture modeling. Our informal experiment revealed that in some cases, having the visual documentation can significantly increase comprehension of an online OSS project over having only the textual information that currently exists for that project.

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Borrego GMorán APalacio Cinco RRodríguez-Elias OGarcía-Canseco E(2017)Review of approaches to manage architectural knowledge in Agile Global Software DevelopmentIET Software10.1049/iet-sen.2016.019711:3(77-88)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2017
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2889160.2892649

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Software architecture model driven reverse engineering approach to open source software development
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Reusability
    2. Software post-development issues

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Wang TChow K(2019)Automatic Tagging of Cyber Threat Intelligence Unstructured Data using Semantics Extraction2019 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI)10.1109/ISI.2019.8823252(197-199)Online publication date: Jul-2019
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISI.2019.8823252
Borrego GMorán APalacio Cinco RRodríguez-Elias OGarcía-Canseco E(2017)Review of approaches to manage architectural knowledge in Agile Global Software DevelopmentIET Software10.1049/iet-sen.2016.019711:3(77-88)Online publication date: 1-Jun-2017
https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-sen.2016.0197
Aldaeej ABadreddin ODillon LVisser WWilliams L(2016)Towards promoting design and UML modeling practices in the open source communityProceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion10.1145/2889160.2892649(722-724)Online publication date: 14-May-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2889160.2892649

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