US 2011/0258611 A1 · VISUALIZATION OF RUNTIME ANALYSIS ACROSS DYNAMIC BOUNDARIES

Abstract

Enhanced software architecture diagrams are derived by correlating runtime and static information, thereby allowing the diagrams to span runtime determination boundaries. Runtime determination boundaries are defined by decisions made at runtime, e.g., client-server boundaries, machine-machine boundaries, database-querying program boundaries, web service provider-consumer boundaries, factory caller-instance boundaries, interface call-implementing class boundaries, and reflection boundaries. Correlation may involve identifying instances of types, tracing an identifier injected into a communication channel, using a causality hook, and/or comparing messages leaving a caller with messages entering a callee, for example.

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Dependent claims

A process which correlates software architecture diagrams using runtime generated data, the process utilizing in a device a memory in operable communication with at least one logical processor, the process comprising the steps of:

locating a runtime determination boundary in a software architecture, the software architecture represented at least partially by at least one software architecture diagram;
obtaining runtime information for at least one execution of an instance of the software architecture;
and
correlating at least a portion of the runtime information with the at least one software architecture diagram, thereby producing an enhanced architecture diagram which documents an execution history across the runtime determination boundary.

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A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium configured with data and with instructions that when executed by at least one processor causes the processor(s) to perform a correlation process comprising the steps of:

obtaining runtime information for an execution of an instance of a software architecture;
acquiring a static architecture structure containing static information about the software architecture;
deriving an enhanced architecture diagram from the runtime information and the static information, the enhanced architecture diagram documenting an execution history for the instance across a runtime determination boundary;
and
visually presenting the enhanced architecture diagram in at least one of:
a display, a printout.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Visualization of runtime analysis across dynamic boundaries

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Visualization of runtime analysis across dynamic boundaries

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Abstract

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