Model-driven architectures (MDA) separate the business or application logic from the underlying platform technology and represent this logic with precise semantic models. These mo...
Jana Koehler, Rainer Hauser, Shubir Kapoor, Freder...
The distributed development and maintenance paradigm for component delivery is fraught with problems. One wants a relationship between developers and clients that is autonomous an...
As systems evolve, they become harder to understand because the implementation of concepts (e.g. business rules) becomes less coherent. To preserve source code comprehensibility, ...
Avoiding architectural erosion helps extend the lifetime of an evolving software system. Erosion can be reduced by ensuring that (i) developers share a good understanding of a sys...
Ciaran O'Reilly, Philip J. Morrow, David W. Bustar...
As programs evolve, their code increasingly becomes tangled by programmers and requirements. This mosaic quality complicates program comprehension and maintenance. Many of these a...
Daniel R. Licata, Christopher D. Harris, Shriram K...