CI-P: Collaborative Research: Planning and Prototyping a Community-Wide Software Architecture Instrument

CI-P：协作研究：规划和原型设计社区范围的软件架构工具

• 批准号: 1629977
• 负责人: Nenad Medvidovic
• 金额: $ 7万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1629977&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; Collaborative; Research; Planning; Prototyping

The effort and cost of maintenance dominate activities in a software system's lifecycle. Over the past two decades, software architecture research has yielded many tools and techniques for understanding and maintaining the architectures of software systems. However, empirical research and technology transfer are impeded by myriad disjoint environments, lack of a shared research infrastructure, the costs of making tools robust, and lack of datasets needed to conduct architecture-oriented empirical research. Consequently, researchers and practitioners often repeat each other's efforts, thus limiting potential breakthroughs. This projects develops the plans and an initial prototype for an integration framework that assembles architecture-related techniques to enable maintenance-focused empirical research. The framework revolutionizes the future of software systems research and development. It facilitates the discovery and adoption of cutting-edge techniques and tools, and fosters much more effective university-industry collaboration than exists today. This planning project elicits and prioritizes the requirements, collects the community feedback, and develops a prototype for the Software Architecture INstrument (SAIN), a first-of-its-kind integration framework. SAIN comprises three principal components: (1) a catalogued library of tools for reverse engineering and analyzing software architectures; (2) a plug-and-play instrument for integrating the techniques to enable architecture-oriented empirical studies; and (3) a repository of Web-accessible software-architecture datasets and benchmarks. This planning project develops a proof-of-concept solution that demonstrates the feasibility of the proposed instrument, as well as the research activities enabled by this instrument. SAIN provides an effective, community-wide platform for software architecture research and practice through continuous integration of diverse tools. It supports architecture's central role in a broad range of software engineering activities. The framework comprises the first repository hosting large numbers of recovered architectures to enable researchers to effectively evaluate their techniques, and is aimed at reinvigorating empirical research in software architecture.

维护的努力和成本占据了软件系统生命周期中的活动。在过去的二十年中，软件体系结构研究产生了许多工具和技术，以理解和维护软件系统的体系结构。但是，实证研究和技术转移会受到众多不相交的环境的阻碍，缺乏共享的研究基础设施，制造工具的成本以及缺乏进行面向建筑的经验研究所需的数据集。因此，研究人员和从业人员经常重复彼此的努力，从而限制了潜在的突破。该项目为集成框架制定了计划和初始原型，该框架组装了与体系结构相关的技术，以实现以维护为中心的经验研究。该框架彻底改变了软件系统研发的未来。它促进了尖端技术和工具的发现和采用，并且促进了比当今存在的更有效的大学行业协作。该计划项目会引起要求并优先考虑要求，收集社区反馈，并为软件体系结构工具（SAIN）开发一个原型，即首个集成框架。 Sain包括三个主要组件：（1）用于反向工程和分析软件体系结构的工具库； （2）一种插件仪器，用于整合技术以实现建筑的经验研究； （3）可访问Web访问的软件架构数据集和基准的存储库。该计划项目开发了一种概念验证解决方案，该解决方案证明了拟议工具的可行性以及该工具启用的研究活动。 Sain通过连续整合各种工具，为软件体系结构研究和实践提供了一个有效的，范围内的平台。它支持建筑在各种软件工程活动中的核心作用。该框架包括第一个托管大量回收架构的存储库，以使研究人员能够有效地评估其技术，并旨在重新激发软件体系结构中的经验研究。