Automated Integration of Heteregeneous Architecture Information into a Unified Model.

As software systems are increasingly complex, architecture documentation becomes more important. Initial documentation of a system’s architecture needs to be kept up-to-date as the system evolves. Therefore, automated support for maintaining and evolving architecture information and documentation of interconnected and heterogeneous systems is highly beneficial to engineers, architects, and other stakeholders. To achieve this, we propose to automatically integrate recovered architecture information from heterogeneous data sources and architectural artifacts into a unified data model to create integrated views. Integrated views provide a holistic and up-to-date system representation. In this work, we present an integration approach for architecture information in a unified data model that serves as a digital architecture twin representing the current architecture of a system. We show that the integration approach successfully integrates architecture information by applying adapted metrics.