Understanding the structure of large existing (and evolving) software systems is a major challenge for software engineers. In reverse engineering, we aim to compute, for a given s...
Decomposing a software system into smaller, more manageable clusters is a common approach to support the comprehension of large systems. In recent years, researchers have focused ...
Software architectures, like complex designs in any field, embody tradeoffs made by the designers. However, these tradeoffs are not always made explicitly by the designers and the...
Rick Kazman, Mario Barbacci, Mark Klein, S. Jeromy...
Jackson’s Problem Frames provide a means of analysing and decomposing problems. They emphasise the world outside the computer helping the developer to focus on the problem domai...
Lucia Rapanotti, Jon G. Hall, Michael Jackson, Bas...
Software architecture (SA) evaluation is a quality assurance technique that is increasingly attracting significant research and commercial interests. A number of SA evaluation meth...