METHOD AND TOOL FOR ENGINEERING SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES WITH ITS VARIOUS SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS OF COMPLEX CYBER PHYSICAL SYSTEMS OF DIFFERENT TECHNICAL DOMAINS

摘要

In order to give architects engineering the software of software architectures with its various software artifacts of complex cyber physical systems of different technical domains a powerful way to identify and control architecture erosion in codebases of the complex cyber physical systems it is proposed a method or tool that would (i) diagnose and categorize software artifacts dependencies (SWA DEP) in the software architectures of complex cyber physical systems triggered by revisions or commits (ii) relate changes in the diagnosed and categorized dependencies (DEP) with change events on the software artifacts (SWA) such as those in particular caused by at least one of enhancing the complex cyber physical system with new features as required by market demands and fixing defects found in operation and/or raised during maintenance of the complex cyber physical system and (iii) represent the diagnosed and categorized dependencies (DEP) and the related changes in the diagnosed and categorized dependencies (DEP).