Coping with system evolution - experiences in reverse architecting as a means to ease the evolution of complex systems

P. Daniel Borches; G. Maarten Bonnema

doi:10.1002/j.2334-5837.2009.tb00994.x

Coping with system evolution - experiences in reverse architecting as a means to ease the evolution of complex systems

P. Daniel Borches^*, G. Maarten Bonnema

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Creating systems from scratch is time consuming and costly, therefore companies often choose to evolve existing systems. The understanding that a company has about the impact that a change has in the system architecture determines their ability to cope with system evolution. System architects and designers need to have an architecture representation that enables them to understand and to foresee consequences of evolving the system. This representation however is often not documented. Reverse architecting enables to recover the architecture representation. In this paper, experiences in reverse architecting in a industrial case at Philips Healthcare MRI Group is presented. We show that the proposed approach provides an effective framework to reason about evolvability and impact that design changes has on the system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	19th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE 2009) in conjunction with the 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Systems Engineering APCOSE 2009
Pages	955-969
Number of pages	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2334-5837.2009.tb00994.x
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	19th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, INCOSE 2009 - Singapore, Thailand, Singapore, Singapore Duration: 20 Jul 2009 → 23 Jul 2009 Conference number: 19

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Conference	19th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, INCOSE 2009
Abbreviated title	INCOSE 2009
Country/Territory	Singapore
City	Singapore
Period	20/07/09 → 23/07/09
Other	20-23 July 2009

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Daniel Borches, P., & Maarten Bonnema, G. (2009). Coping with system evolution - experiences in reverse architecting as a means to ease the evolution of complex systems. In 19th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE 2009) in conjunction with the 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Systems Engineering APCOSE 2009 (pp. 955-969) https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2334-5837.2009.tb00994.x

Daniel Borches, P. ; Maarten Bonnema, G. / Coping with system evolution - experiences in reverse architecting as a means to ease the evolution of complex systems. 19th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE 2009) in conjunction with the 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Systems Engineering APCOSE 2009. 2009. pp. 955-969

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Daniel Borches, P & Maarten Bonnema, G 2009, Coping with system evolution - experiences in reverse architecting as a means to ease the evolution of complex systems. in 19th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE 2009) in conjunction with the 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Systems Engineering APCOSE 2009. pp. 955-969, 19th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering, INCOSE 2009, Singapore, Singapore, 20/07/09. https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2334-5837.2009.tb00994.x

Coping with system evolution - experiences in reverse architecting as a means to ease the evolution of complex systems. / Daniel Borches, P.; Maarten Bonnema, G.
19th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE 2009) in conjunction with the 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Systems Engineering APCOSE 2009. 2009. p. 955-969.

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Daniel Borches P, Maarten Bonnema G. Coping with system evolution - experiences in reverse architecting as a means to ease the evolution of complex systems. In 19th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE 2009) in conjunction with the 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Systems Engineering APCOSE 2009. 2009. p. 955-969 doi: 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2009.tb00994.x

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