Fully Automatic Approach

Approach Heuristic Sub-Type of SAR Approach Approach Name + Reference Direction of Recovery Technique or Tool Availability Empirical Evaluation Applied-to Systems Required Input
An ML based Automatic SAR Approach [122] Bottom-up Technique No Not Specified Not Specified Structural Information, Dynamic Information, Textual Information, Contextual Information
Supervised Learning SAR approach [123] Bottom-up Technique No Field Study Jhotdraw, Xfig Architectural Information
Structural Dependency Based An automated feature selection based technique [124] Bottom-up Technique No Field Study SAVT, FES, Mozilla Not Specified
Bayesian learning based approach [125] Bottom-up Technique No Field Study Mosaic Architectural Information
SArF [126] Bottom-up Technique No Case Study Weka, Fujitsu's DMTool Source Code
CAESAR [144] Bottom-up Tool No Case Study AUTOSAR, HTTP Driver Source Code
SARIF [140] Bottom-up Technique Yes Similarity Metrics Bash, ArchStudio, Hadoop, ITK, Chromium, OODT, HDC, HDF, Libxml2 Source Code, Structural Information, Lexical Information
Unnamed Approach [145] Not Specified Not Specified No Similarity Metrics ArchStudio, Hadoops Structural, Semantic, Directory Information
Unnamed Approach [146] Hybrid Technique and Tool No Respondents ArgoUML Source Code, Lexical Information
ISAR [147] Bottom-up Technique No Similarity Metrics "Okhttp, Mabatis, Mockito, Junit, Retrofit, Jadx, Terrier, Clone, Freecol, and Fastjson" Source Code
NEGAR [148] Bottom-up Technique No Similarity Metrics Bash, ArchStudio, Hadoop, ITK, Chromium Source Code, Structural Information
MAFM [149] Bottom-up Technique No Not Specified SpringCloud, SpringBlade, SOP, microservice-platform, mogu_blog_v2, bigfans-cloud, mall-swarm, pig, Xueyuan, auto-platfrom@STQ, multi-task@STQ, ci-platform@STQ Structural Information, Source Code
Clustering (ML based) Mapping Based Recovery RecovAr [127] Top-Down Technique No Precision and Recall Hadoop and Struts Not Specified
ML based SAR Approach [128] Bottom-up Technique No Not Specified Xfig, Apache, Clips, Bash, ELM, GhostView Architectural Information
MDSD based Tool [129] Bottom-up Tool No Case Study Matrix Framework Not Specified
Arch [130] Bottom-up Tool No Case Study Not Specified Lexical Information, Historical Information, Structural Information
Others TTIMs based Approach [131] Bottom-up Technique No Case Study Apache Hadoop Structural Information
Bunch [132], [133], [134], [135], [136], [137], [138] Bottom-up Tool Yes Case Study dot Source Code, Human Expertise

Mostly-Automatic Approach

Approach Heuristic Sub-Type of SAR Approach Approach Name + Reference Direction of Recovery Technique or Tool Availability Empirical Evaluation Applied-to Systems Required Input
Alborz [74], [75] Bottom-up Tool No Precision and Recall Not Specified Source Code, Dynamic Information, Human Expertise
A concept analysis based approach [80] Hybrid Tool No Experimental Simulation A new feature-based evaluation framework Source Code, Textual Information, Dynamic Information, Physical Information, Styles, Viewpoints
Feature based Architecture Recovery [86] Bottom-up Technique No Case Study Aero, Bash, CVS, Mosaic Source Code, Dynamic Information, Human Expertise
Concept Analysis Unnamed [91] Bottom-up Technique No Case Study Chull, BDD, Go, Lucent Code Source Code
URCA [81] Bottom-up Tool Yes Not Specified Not Specified Source Code, Dynamic Information, Human Expertise
Cacophony [87] Bottom-up Technique No Case Study Control panel, Debugger interface, Cross reference facility, Message facility, Communication package Source Code, Human Expertise
Directed Analysis Symphony/Nimeta [88], [89], [90] Bottom-up Tool No Field Study PKUAS, EJB Source Code, Dynamic Information, Styles
Unnamed [83], [84] Bottom-up Tool No Experimental Simulation Call Graph Source Code, Human Expertise
X-Ray [82] Bottom-up Technique No Case Study Image Processing System Source Code, Dynamic Information, Human Expertise, Styles
Dominance Analysis Bauhaus [77], [78], [79] Hybrid Tool No Not Specified Dassault Systèmes Human Expertise
Unnamed (Dominance analysis) [85] Hybrid Technique and Tool No Case Study SDCC, CCL, NPF, Venice Dynamic Information, Human Expertise, Viewpoints
Layers and Matrix ArchVis [76] Bottom-up Technique No Precision and Recall Not Specified Not Specified
LBHFC [92] Bottom-up Technique No Field Study Bash, CVS, CA, WCA, LIMBO Structural Information
UPGMA [93] Bottom-up Technique No Case Study Telecommunications system Object-attribute data matrix
Probabilistic model based on Expectation Maximization [94] Bottom-up Technique and Tool No Case Study EasyMock, JabRef, Javagroups, JEdit, JUnit, Jvlt Lexical information
LBME [95] Bottom-up Technique and Tool No Field Study ArgoUML, GEF, JFreeChart, Lucene, Solr, Tomcat, Weka,BMC, Equality, Karniyarik, SMC Structural Information
WCA [96] Bottom-up Technique No Similarity Metrics Xfig, Bash Structural Information
LIMBO [97], [98], [99] Bottom-up Technique No Similarity Metrics 4 algorithms and 5 datasets Not Specified
ARC [100] Bottom-up Technique No Similarity Metrics MALLET, Weka, Soot IR based information
Weight based Approaches Zone Based Recovery (ZBR) [101], [102] Bottom-up Technique No Case Study EasyMock, JabRef, Javagroups, JEdit, JUnit, Jvlt, JHotDraw, JFreeChart, PMD, FindBugs, ArgoUML, EclipseJdtCore, JdkSwing Textual Information
A Hypergraph Clustering based approach [103] Bottom-up Technique No Precision and Recall CRM Structural Information
CCHD based Approach [104] Bottom-up Technique and Tool No Experimental Simulation Sando, Apache httpd, JEdit, Apache OODT, Hadoop, ArchStudio, and ITK Source Code
HCC [105] Bottom-up Technique No Experimental Simulation DDA, FES, Junit, SAVT, iText, Weka Structural Information
Clustering (Non ML based/Not Specified) A clustering method for SAR based on source code [106] Bottom-up Technique No Experimental Simulation CVS, Mosaic, Bash, Xfig Source Code
WDCG based SAR [107] Top-Down Technique No Experimental Simulation Software clustering quality, authoritativeness, extremity of cluster distribution and stability Structural Information
Unnamed [108] Bottom-up Technique No Precision and Recall Xfig, Bash Not Specified
HYGAR [141] Hybrid Technique No Case Study Lucene, OpenJPA, Bash, Hadoop, ArchStudio Structural Information
HYGAR-II [142] Hybrid Technique Yes Case Study Lucene, OpenJPA, Bash, Hadoop, ArchStudio, Nutch, Struts2 Structural Information
Unnamed [109], [110] Bottom-up Technique No Precision and Recall Mobile Media and Health Watcher Lexical information
Softwarenaut [111], [112] Hybrid Tool Yes Not Specified Hapax semantic analysis framework Source Code, Textual Information, Physical Information, Styles
Knowledge Based Recovery ArchMine [113] Top-Down Technique No Case Study CSBase Not Specified
A proximity measure based SAR approach [114] Not Specified Technique No Case Study Not Specified Structural Information
Software Reflexion Model [115] Bottom-up Technique and Tool No Case Study NetBSD, Restructuring Tool, Excel Source Code
CASE based Approach [116] Bottom-up Tool No Not Specified Not Specified Architectural Information
Architecture recovery based on a software structure [117] Bottom-up Technique and Tool No Field Study Ericsson Not Specified
Mapping Based Recovery ACDC [118] Bottom-up Technique No Field Study TOBEY, Linux Structural Information
ARCADE [119] Bottom-up Technique and Tool Yes Case Study Not Specified Structural Information, Lexical Information
SysMar [120] Bottom-up Technique No Case Study Not Specified Source Code
Program Slicing MDGs based technique [121] Bottom-up Technique No Case Study Compiler, boxer, minitunis, ispell, rcs, bison Not Specified
Dependency Based Recovery MAFM [143] Bottom-up Technique No Not Specified SpringCloud, SpringBlade, SOP, microservice-platform, mogu_blog_v2, bigfans-cloud, mall-swarm, pig, Xueyuan, auto-platfrom@STQ, multi-task@STQ, ci-platform@STQ Structural Information, Source Code