ArchViMP – a Framework for Automatic Extraction of Concurrency-related Software Architectural Properties
Concurrent multithreaded programs are more complex than sequential ones due to inter-dependencies of threads over shared memory. Because of these, software architects and developers quickly become overwhelmed when trying to design and manage concurrent software. Existing approaches that try to support architecture efforts in this domain rely on the visualization of concurrency-related properties of software to ease its understanding, but they fail because i) the abstractions they use do not capture information of architectural significance, and because ii) raw visualization of the interdependencies does not scale. In this paper, we suggest a scalable solution that focuses on the abstraction of concurrency properties and their visualization using architectural views. Our framework for automatic extraction of concurrency-related architectural properties (ArchViMP) proposes i) a set of logical rules that abstract concurrency-related architecturally significant software properties and ii) a set of architectural views suitable for showing these concurrency properties.