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The ARAMIS Workbench for Monitoring, Analysis and Visualization of Architectures based on Run-time Interactions

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Ana Nicolaescu,

Artjom Göringer,

Peter Alexander,

Dung LeAuthors Info & Claims

ECSAW '15: Proceedings of the 2015 European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops

Article No.: 57, Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/2797433.2797492

Published: 07 September 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Up-to-date software architecture models dramatically ease the understanding and meaningful evolution of a software system. Unfortunately they are rarely available. Mostly the static view of the architecture is modeled and only stipulations are made regarding how architecture units should communicate. However, a software system tends to evolve independently from its description. This results in violations of the previously stipulated communication rules. A plethora of tools to recover up-to-date architecture models have been proposed, but little emphasis has been put on analyzing and validating the run-time interactions on various abstraction levels defined in the static view of the architecture. In our previous work we have presented ARAMIS - a conceptual infrastructure for the analysis and monitoring of data extracted during run-time - and some first evaluations thereof. This paper presents the current state of the ARAMIS Workbench, which automatically validates if the communication between the units of a software system matches its architecture model, provides visualizations of these interactions on higher and more understandable abstraction levels, and presents evaluations of the various units involved in the analyzed communication. We exemplify its capabilities on a case study based on the Carcass system used in teaching activities at our research group.

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Nicolaescu ALichter H(2016)Behavior-Based Architecture Reconstruction and Conformance Checking2016 13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA)10.1109/WICSA.2016.25(152-157)Online publication date: Apr-2016
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The ARAMIS Workbench for Monitoring, Analysis and Visualization of Architectures based on Run-time Interactions
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183519.3183555
Nicolaescu ALichter HHoffmann V(2017)On Adequate Behavior-Based Architecture Conformance Checks2017 24th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)10.1109/APSEC.2017.51(446-455)Online publication date: Dec-2017
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Nicolaescu ALichter H(2016)Behavior-Based Architecture Reconstruction and Conformance Checking2016 13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA)10.1109/WICSA.2016.25(152-157)Online publication date: Apr-2016
https://doi.org/10.1109/WICSA.2016.25

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