WICSA 2009 BAAL:Architecture Analysis with Lattix, A Comparison of Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome

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Birds-of-a-Feather Session

When: Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 18:00 – 19:00

Organizers: Frank Waldman (Lattix), Clare Pearce (Scientific Computers Ltd)

Participants (Tentative)

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• (example) --Bob Schwanke, Siemens Corporate Research. Lattix may be an effective tool for tracking architectural change. It is already sometimes used for enforcing consistency with a provides/requires specification.

Call for Participation

Join us for a live assessment of the architectures of the popular Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers using Lattix LDM, a architecture analysis tool which been applied to hundreds of large complex commercial software systems. First we will create an accurate blueprint of each system with a Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM) which has been transformed through the application of special partitioning algorithms. We will then compare the architectures utilizing a variety of architectural metrics which focus on the system as a whole and examine its organizational structure, such as connectedness, coupling, cyclicality, and sensitivity to change. We will conclude with a discussion how this analysis could be conducted on your system to identify issues and guide re-engineering efforts.

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