A CHANGE PROPAGATION PROCESS FOR DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE

Mohamed Oussama Hassan, Laurent Deruelle, Henri Basson, Adeel Ahmad

2010

Abstract

In the context of software architecture evolution, understanding the impacts of a change to be applied on a distributed software architecture is necessary for various activities related to maintenance and change management. In this paper, we propose formal models and a platform based on eclipse plugins for modeling and analysis of the software architecture description and their related source codes. The proposed models aim at the construction of graph representation based on the architecture description and the software source codes. The graph implementation is mapped with facts of a distributed knowledge-based system, which performs change propagation rules to evaluate the impact of a change performed on distributed components.

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in Harvard Style

Oussama Hassan M., Deruelle L., Basson H. and Ahmad A. (2010). A CHANGE PROPAGATION PROCESS FOR DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8425-21-8, pages 78-85. DOI: 10.5220/0002998400780085


in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase10,
author={Mohamed Oussama Hassan and Laurent Deruelle and Henri Basson and Adeel Ahmad},
title={A CHANGE PROPAGATION PROCESS FOR DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2010},
pages={78-85},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002998400780085},
isbn={978-989-8425-21-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - A CHANGE PROPAGATION PROCESS FOR DISTRIBUTED SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE
SN - 978-989-8425-21-8
AU - Oussama Hassan M.
AU - Deruelle L.
AU - Basson H.
AU - Ahmad A.
PY - 2010
SP - 78
EP - 85
DO - 10.5220/0002998400780085