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Separating architectural concerns to ease program understanding

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes archive
Volume 30 , Issue 4 (July 2005) table of contents

SESSION: Modeling and Analysis of Concerns in Software (MACS) table of contents

Pages: 1 - 5

Year of Publication: 2005

ISSN:0163-5948

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Vladimir Jakobac	Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Nenad Medvidovic	Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Alexander Egyed	Teknowledge Corporation, Marina Del Rey, CA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper presents an iterative, user-guided approach to program understanding based on a framework for analyzing and visualizing software systems. The framework is built around a pluggable and extensible set of clues about a given problem domain, execution environment, and/or programming language. The approach leverages two orthogonal architectural views of a system and describes how a proper identification of boundaries for separate concerns helps in reasoning about the system.

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