Speakers: Dany Moshkovich and Maayan Goldstein, IBM

Title:
System Grokking – A Novel Approach for Software Understanding, Validation, and Evolution

Abstract:
The complexity of software systems is continuously growing across a wide range of application domains.
System architects are often faced with large complex systems and systems whose semantics may be difficult
to understand, hidden, or even still evolving. Raising the level of abstraction of such systems can 
significantly improve their usability.

We introduce System Grokking - a software architect assistance technology designed to support incremental
and iterative user-driven understanding, validation, and evolution of complex software systems through
higher levels of abstraction. System Grokking enables semi-automatic discovery, manipulation, and 
visualization of groups of domain-specific software elements and the relationships between them to represent
high-level structural and behavioral abstractions.