Towards a Unified Approach for Software Architecture Recovery

Large scale software systems are decomposed into gross-level components to reduce maintenance efforts. Software Architecture Recovery (SAR) approaches have been introduced to automatically cluster software modules for identifying modular components. In our previous work, we analyzed and hybridized various algorithms for clustering software modules. In addition to the employed clustering algorithm, SAR approaches are subject to many variations from multiple perspectives like the types of input and recovered artifacts. In this paper, we systematically review these variations. We aim at extending our work towards a unified approach for SAR in the future.