Over the years the software engineering community has increasingly realized the important role software architecture plays in fulfilling the quality requirements of a system. The ...
Quantitative techniques have traditionally been used to assess software architectures. We have found that early in the development process there is often insufficient quantitative...
Abstract. System architectures are described in abstract terms, often using Design Patterns. Actual reuse based on such descriptions requires that each development project derive a...
In a UML model, different aspects of a system are covered by different types of diagrams and this bears the risk that an overall system specification becomes barely tractable by t...
Capturing and using design rationale is becoming a hot topic for software architects, as architectural design decisions are now considered first class entities that should be reco...