A Query Language for Software Architecture Information (Extended version)

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16829v2
• Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 11:46:13 GMT
• Title: A Query Language for Software Architecture Information (Extended version)
• Authors: Joshua Ammermann, Sven Jordan, Lukas Linsbauer, Ina Schaefer
• Abstract summary: Maintenance tasks of existing software systems suffer from architecture information diverging over time. The Digital Architecture Twin (DArT) can support software maintenance by providing up-to-date architecture information. We contribute the Architecture Information Query Language (AIQL) which enables stakeholders to access up-to-date and tailored architecture information.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Software maintenance is an important part of a software system's life cycle. Maintenance tasks of existing software systems suffer from architecture information that is diverging over time (architectural drift). The Digital Architecture Twin (DArT) can support software maintenance by providing up-to-date architecture information. For this, the DArT gathers such information and co-evolves with a software system, enabling continuous reverse engineering. But the crucial link for stakeholders to retrieve this information is missing. To fill this gap, we contribute the Architecture Information Query Language (AIQL), which enables stakeholders to access up-to-date and tailored architecture information. We derived four application scenarios in the context of continuous reverse engineering. We showed that the AIQL provides the required functionality to formulate queries for the application scenarios and that the language scales for use with real-world software systems. In a user study, stakeholders agreed that the language is easy to understand and assessed its value to the specific stakeholder for the application scenarios.

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