One promising approach to more effective software development is the concept of product platform originated from mechanical engineering, aiming at architectural product families i...
Evolution of software systems is characterized by inevitable changes of software and increasing software complexity, which in turn may lead to huge maintenance and development cos...
Currently, paradigms such as component-based software development and service-oriented software architectures promote modularization of software systems into highly decoupled and ...
Lieven Desmet, Nico Janssens, Sam Michiels, Frank ...
We present the work of establishing an integrated environment that facilitates architecture design, reconstruction, and maintenance in the entire life cycle of a software product ...
Software architecture descriptions can play a wide variety of roles in the software lifecycle, from requirements specification, to logical design, to implementation architectures....