—When engineering complex software systems, the key Architectural Design Decisions (ADD) and the reasoning underlying those decisions need to be fully understood by all stakehold...
This paper discusses the requirements and a generic framework for the integration of architectural and codebased reengineering tools. This framework is needed because there is a l...
Rick Kazman, Steven S. Woods, S. Jeromy Carri&egra...
Strong user involvement and clear business objectives, both relying on efficient communication between the developers and the business, are key factors for a project's succes...
Martin Nussbaumer, Patrick Freudenstein, Martin Ga...
Designing component-based application that meets performance requirements remains a challenging problem, and usually requires a prototype to be constructed to benchmark performanc...
Function point analysis(FPA) was proposedto help measure the size of a computerizedbusiness information system. It is widely used in the actual software development. However, it h...