Software Architecture Review: The State of Practice
Abstract
Architecture reviews are an effective way of ensuring design quality and addressing architectural concerns. However, the software engineering community rarely adopts the methods and techniques available to support disciplined architecture review processes.
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Automated architecture conformance checking is rare.
“Automated architecture conformance checking is rare ( cogs ).”
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Software Architecture in Practice: Challenges and Opportunities
Wan, Z., Zhang, Y., Xia, X., Jiang, Y., & Lo, D. (2023) · Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering · doi:10.1145/3611643.3616367 · Cited by 30 · see citing works
“” The widespread use of experience-based reasoning aligns with findings in the literature (e.g., [7]).”
Background
- Authors
- Babar, M. A., & Gorton, I.
- Affiliations
- Lero (IE)
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (US)
- Venue
- Computer
- Published
- 2009-07
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 26-32
- ISSN
- 0018-9162 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W7214190680
- Cited by
- 0
- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Computer (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Research
- Keywords
- architectural concerns, design quality, software architecture, state of practice
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