 International
Workshop on Software Analysis, Visualization and Refactoring November 16, 2014, Hongkong The 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2014) The continuous maintenance of software is very important to
improve quality or to meet changing requirements. The continuous maintenance of
software often starts with analysis then followed by refactoring. Nowadays many
models, metrics, tools have emerged that can support designer to assess, analyze
software and plan the refactoring. Especially methods that use a visual
representation of the software generated directly from code base are of growing
interest. Despite the growth of such approaches and tools an integrated view is
still missing of how those methods and tools can be leveraged in different
scenarios for improving quality attributes or coping with changes. The proposed
workshop solicits research and industry practice regarding the pros and cons of
those methods and tools and further to form a baseline perspective of how they
can work together to contribute to more effective software maintenance. Software architecture quality has large impact on the successful evolution of software. An upfront design cannot always ensure the quality of the software throughout its entire lifecycle the software must be continuously maintained due to the emergence of new technology or changing requirements. In recent years many quantitative or experience-based methods and tools have emerged that can be used to investigate the software code base and thereby assess, analyze and plan the refactoring. A joint effort to exchange ideas from both academia and industry to form a consolidated view regarding how good such methods and tools are and how to benefit from them for different software maintenance scenarios is desirable. This is the main theme of this workshop. The goal of this workshop is to discuss progress on architecture metrics, measurement, and analysis and refactoring simulation; to gather empirical evidence on the use and effectiveness of metrics; and to identify priorities for a research agenda. The workshop addresses both academic researchers and industrial practitioners for an exchange of ideas and collaboration.
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