We want to explore and analyse design decisions that influence maintainability of software. Software maintainability is important because the effort expended on changes and fixes ...
Abstract. Software architecture and software architecture practices become increasingly important for information systems since they enable reasoning on the design of the system. T...
Program comprehension tools are a valuable resource for navigating and understanding large software systems. Package explorers, fan-in / fan-out views, dependency graphs and cover...
R. Ian Bull, Margaret-Anne D. Storey, Jean-Marie F...
In this paper, we describe design motivations and experience with a visual language that treats the architecture of a reactive system as a composition of small, asynchronous softw...
In this paper, we present an approach to improve the software architecture evaluation process by systematically extracting and appropriately documenting architecturally significan...