Recently, Agile Software Processes have been discussed as flexible and light-weight alternatives to established Software Engineering approaches, in order to overcome the obstacles...
Long-lived, architecture-based software systems are increasingly important. Effective process support for these systems depends upon recognising their compositional nature and the ...
R. Mark Greenwood, Dharini Balasubramaniam, Sorana...
Architectural patterns and styles represent important design decisions and thus are valuable abstractions for architecture recovery. Recognizing them is a challenge because styles...
The architecture of software systems is known to decay if no counter-measures are taken. In order to prevent this architectural erosion, the conformance of the actual system archi...
Florian Deissenboeck, Lars Heinemann, Benjamin Hum...
Software evolution in a cooperative environment, where a pool of maintainers/developers contribute to the overall system changes, is challanging due to several factors, such as th...