Linux as a case study: its extracted software architecture Export

@proceedings{citeulike:1982891, abstract = {Many software systems do not have a documented system architecture. These are often large, complex systems that are difficult to understand and maintain. One approach to recovering the understanding of a system is to extract architectural documentation from the system implementation. To evaluate the effectiveness of this approach, we extracted architectural documentation from the Linux^TM kernel. The Linux kernel is a good candidate for a case study because it is a large (800 KLOC) system that is in widespread use and it is representative of many existing systems. Our study resulted in documentation that is useful for understanding the Linux system structure. Also, we learned several useful lessons about extracting a system's architecture}, author = {Bowman, I. T. and Holt, R. C. and Brewster, N. V.}, booktitle = {Software Engineering, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on}, citeulike-article-id = {1982891}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=841045}, journal = {Software Engineering, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on}, keywords = {architecture, case-study, linux, reconstruction, reverse-engineering, software, software-architecture, software-engineering}, pages = {555--563}, posted-at = {2007-11-26 00:45:31}, priority = {3}, title = {Linux as a case study: its extracted software architecture}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=841045}, year = {1999} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:1982891 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1982891 N2 - Many software systems do not have a documented system architecture. These are often large, complex systems that are difficult to understand and maintain. One approach to recovering the understanding of a system is to extract architectural documentation from the system implementation. To evaluate the effectiveness of this approach, we extracted architectural documentation from the Linux^TM kernel. The Linux kernel is a good candidate for a case study because it is a large (800 KLOC) system that is in widespread use and it is representative of many existing systems. Our study resulted in documentation that is useful for understanding the Linux system structure. Also, we learned several useful lessons about extracting a system's architecture JF - Software Engineering, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on EP - 563 TI - Linux as a case study: its extracted software architecture T2 - Software Engineering, 1999. Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on SP - 555 KW - architecture KW - case-study KW - linux KW - reconstruction KW - reverse-engineering KW - software KW - software-architecture KW - software-engineering AU - Bowman, IT AU - Holt, RC AU - Brewster, NV PY - 1999/// UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=841045 ER -