@ARTICLE{Ullmann24-EC-SyDRA,
   AUTHOR       = {Gabriel Cavalheiro Ullmann and Cristiano Politowski and 
      Fabio Petrillo and Nicolas Anquetil and Yann-Ga�l Gu�h�neuc},
   JOURNAL      = {Entertainment Computing (EC)},
   TITLE        = {SyDRA: An Approach to Understand Game Engine 
      Architecture},
   YEAR         = {2024},
   MONTH        = {July},
   NOTE         = {12 pages.},
   OPTNUMBER    = {},
   PAGES        = {100832},
   VOLUME       = {52},
   EDITOR       = {Ryohei Nakatsu and Matthias Rauterberg},
   KEYWORDS     = {Topic: <b>Video game development</b>, 
      Topic: <b>Program comprehension</b>, Venue: <b>EC</b>},
   PUBLISHER    = {Elsevier},
   URL          = {http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/EC24.doc.pdf},
   ABSTRACT     = {Game engines are tools to facilitate video game 
      development. They provide graphics, sound, and physics simulation 
      features, which would have to be otherwise implemented by developers. 
      Even though essential for modern commercial video game development, 
      game engines are complex and developers often struggle to understand 
      their architecture, leading to maintainability and evolution issues 
      that negatively affect video game productions. In this paper, we 
      present the Subsystem-Dependency Recovery Approach (SyDRA), which 
      helps game engine developers understand game engine architecture and 
      therefore make informed game engine development choices. By applying 
      this approach to 10 open-source game engines, we obtain architectural 
      models that can be used to compare game engine architectures and 
      identify and solve issues of excessive coupling and folder nesting. 
      Through a controlled experiment, we show that the inspection of the 
      architectural models derived from SyDRA enables developers to 
      complete tasks related to architectural understanding and impact 
      analysis in less time and with higher correctness than without these 
      models.}
}

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