Software-intensive systems evolve continuously under the pressure of new and changing requirements, generally leading to an increase in overall system complexity. In this respect,...
Modern approaches in software development propose the use of software architectures to help handle the complexity of large software system developments. An important technique to ...
To support software architecture evaluation practices, several efforts have been made to provide a basis for comparing and assessing evaluation methods, document various best pract...
Little guidance and few methods are available to refine a set of software requirements into an architecture satisfying those requirements. Part of the challenge stems from the fac...
A controlled experiment was performed to assess the usefulness of portions of a Usability-Supporting Architectural Pattern (USAP) in modifying the design of software architectures...