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...
The CoSy Architecture Schema Toolkit (CAST) is a new software toolkit, and related processing paradigm, which supports the construction and exploration of information-processing a...
Abstract. Software architecture and software architecture practices become increasingly important for information systems since they enable reasoning on the design of the system. T...
Software designs decay over time. While most studies focus on decay at the system level, this research studies design decay on well understood micro architectures, design patterns...
A software application has strong relationships with the business processes it supports. In the analysis phase those parts of the processes in which the software system is applied...