Risks and Risk Management in Software Architecture Evolution: An Industrial Survey

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odd Petter N. Slyngstad ◽  
Reidar Conradi ◽  
M. Ali Babar ◽  
Viktor Clerc ◽  
Hans van Vliet
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Software Architecture ◽  
Architecture Evolution

Evolution Impact on Architecture Stability in Open-Source Projects

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mamdouh Alenezi ◽  
Fakhry Khellah
Keyword(s):  
Software Architecture ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Quality Standard ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Efficient Technique ◽  
Maintenance Cost ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Architecture Evolution

Software systems usually evolve constantly, which requires constant development and maintenance. Subsequently, the architecture of these systems tends to degrade with time. Therefore, stability is a key measure for evaluating an architecture. Open-source software systems are becoming progressively vital these days. Since open-source software systems are usually developed in a different management style, the quality of their architectures needs to be studied. ISO/IEC SQuaRe quality standard characterized stability as one of the sub-characteristics of maintainability. Unstable software architecture could cause the software to require high maintenance cost and effort. In this work, the authors propose a simple, yet efficient, technique that is based on carefully aggregating the package level stability in order to measure the change in the architecture level stability as the architecture evolution happens. The proposed method can be used to further study the cause behind the positive or negative architecture stability changes.

A Systematic Mapping on Visual Solutions to Support the Comprehension of Software Architecture Evolution

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Joao Werther Filho ◽  
Glauco Carneiro ◽  
Rita Maciel
Keyword(s):  
Software Architecture ◽  
Systematic Mapping ◽  
Architecture Evolution

A systematic review of software architecture evolution research

2012 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongyu Pei Breivold ◽  
Ivica Crnkovic ◽  
Magnus Larsson
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Software Architecture ◽  
Architecture Evolution

scholarly journals Software architecture evolution through evolvability analysis

2012 ◽  
Vol 85 (11) ◽  
pp. 2574-2592 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongyu Pei Breivold ◽  
Ivica Crnkovic ◽  
Magnus Larsson
Keyword(s):  
Software Architecture ◽  
Architecture Evolution
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