Architectural Consistency Checking in Plugin-Based Software Systems
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Manually ensuring that the implementation of a software system is consistent with the software architecture is a laborious and error-prone task. Thus, a variety of approaches towards automated consistency checking have been developed to counteract architecture erosion. However, these approaches lack means to define and check architectural restrictions concerning plugin dependencies, which is required for plugin-based software systems.
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- Authors
- Greifenberg, T., Müller, K., & Rumpe, B.
- Affiliations
- RWTH Aachen University (DE)
- Software Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, http://www.se-rwth.de
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2015 European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2015-09-07
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- 1-7
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- 19
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- 2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1
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- 0.38
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- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- arxiv.org
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- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Software › Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Research
- Keywords
- software architecture
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