Software architecture analysis
Ronald Lange, Robert W. Schwanke · 1991
The Arch project is investigating methods and tools for understanding, specifying, controlling and improving the subsystem architecture of large so~are systems.This paper focuses on one of Arch's capabilities, critiquing modularity.It discusses the relationship of modularity and architecture to configuration management, describes Arch's information-sharing measure and its heuristic method, maverick analysis, for spotting poor information-hiding, and gives examples of using Arch tofind and analyze problem modules.Then it describes a case study in which Arch was used to analyze a "real", production software system, including the real developer's responses to Arch's analysis.