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Architectural clones: toward tactical code reuse

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Daniel E. Krutz,

Mehdi MirakhorlAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '16: Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 1480 - 1485

https://doi.org/10.1145/2851613.2851787

Published: 04 April 2016 Publication History

Abstract

Architectural tactics are the building blocks of software architecture. They describe solutions for addressing specific quality concerns, and are prevalent across many software systems. Once a decision is made to utilize a tactic, the developer must generate a concrete plan for implementing the tactic in the code. Unfortunately, this is a non-trivial task for even experienced developers. Developers often resort to using search engines, crowd-sourcing websites, or discussion forums to find sample code snippets. A robust Tactic Search Engine can replace this manual, internet-based search process and help developers to reuse proper architectural knowledge and accurately implement tactics and patterns from a wide range of open source systems. In this paper we analyze several implementations of architectural tactics in the open source community and identify the foundation for building a practical Tactic Search Engine. We also introduce the concept of tactical-clones which may be used as the basic element of a tactic search engine.

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Architectural clones: toward tactical code reuse
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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