Quantitative techniques have traditionally been used to assess software architectures. We have found that early in the development process there is often insufficient quantitative...
When architecting dependable systems, in addition to improving system dependability by means of construction (fault-tolerant and redundant mechanisms, for instance), it is also im...
Henry Muccini, Marcio S. Dias, Debra J. Richardson
Few existing approaches towards architectural evolution deal with unanticipated evolution. This is an important restriction, since a lot of architectural changes are very di cult ...
Barry Boehm, Universityof Southern Calfornia Steven Wolf, Rockwell Collins The development and reuse of sofhvare engineering processes within an organization can be impeded by the...
An organization is architecturally competent if it has the ability to acquire, use and sustain the skills and knowledge necessary to carry out architecture-related practices that ...
Len Bass, Paul C. Clements, Rick Kazman, Mark Klei...