DCLfix: A Recommendation System for Repairing Architectural Violations
This addresses the problem of inadequate tool support for architectural maintenance in software engineering, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing DCL conformance processes.
The paper tackles architectural erosion in software evolution by introducing DCLfix, a recommendation system that provides refactoring guidelines for maintainers after detecting violations using the DCL architectural constraint language.
Architectural erosion is a recurrent problem in software evolution. Despite this fact, the process is usually tackled in ad hoc ways, without adequate tool support at the architecture level. To address this shortcoming, this paper presents a recommendation system -- called DCLfix -- that provides refactoring guidelines for maintainers when tackling architectural erosion. In short, DCLfix suggests refactoring recommendations for violations detected after an architecture conformance process using DCL, an architectural constraint language