A Systematic-Oriented Process for Tool Selection: The Case of Green and Technical Debt Tools in Architecture Reconstruction

Resumen

Well-established methods in software engineering research, such as Systematic Literature Reviews, Systematic Mappings and Case Studies are effective research methods to explore emerging areas, since they are systematic and replicable, and produce reusable result avoiding bias. Frequently, software engineers have to evaluate and select CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering) tools that address trending issues with a non-systematic and replicable processes. This work addresses this problem by tailoring the ISO/IEC 14102:2008 to a systematic-oriented process for the evaluation of software engineering CASE tools in order to embrace the advantages of software engineering systematic methods in the exploration of new areas or emerging issues. This tailored ISO/IEC 14102:2008 standard prescribes a process for the preparation, design and conduction of the software engineering CASE tools evaluation and selection. This process is founded in the application of systematic methods and the generation of a pre-established assets to ensure the reusability of knowledge. In this paper, this tailored process has been applied to address two great emerging concerns in architectural reconstruction: technical debt and energy consumption. As result of this adoption, this paper details the reporting analysis and the set of reusable assets that have been generated during the evaluation process. Specifically, this contribution presents a set of tables, statistics and a decision-making tree of the selected tools for technical debt and energy consumption analysis in architecture reconstruction.