The evolution of architectural decision making as a key focus area of software architecture research: A semi-systematic literature study

M Bhat, K Shumaiev, U Hohenstein… - 2020 ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Literature review studies are essential and form the foundation for any type of research.
They serve as the point of departure for those seeking to understand a research topic, as …

Ontology-based software architecture documentation

KA De Graaf, A Tang, P Liang… - 2012 Joint Working IEEE …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A common approach to software architecture documentation in industry projects is the use of
file-based documents. This approach offers a single-dimensional perspective on the …

Towards an evidence-based understanding of emergence of architecture through continuous refactoring in agile software development

L Chen, MA Babar - 2014 IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The proponents of Agile software development approaches claim that software architecture
emerges from continuous small refactoring, hence, there is not much value in spending …

[HTML][HTML] How organisation of architecture documentation affects architectural knowledge retrieval

KA de Graaf, P Liang, A Tang, H van Vliet - Science of Computer …, 2016 - Elsevier
A common approach to software architecture documentation in industry projects is the use of
file-based documents. This approach offers a single-dimensional arrangement of the …

Continuous rationale visualization

A Kleebaum, B Paech, JO Johanssen… - 2021 Working …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Continuous software engineering (CSE) is characterized by frequent changes. It is
challenging for developers to change software while sustaining its high quality so that the …

Improving Comprehensibility of Event-Driven Microservice Architectures by Graph-Based Visualizations

S Schoop, E Hebisch, T Franz - European Conference on Software …, 2024 - Springer
This paper presents an industrial case study examining challenges faced by software
architects and developers during planning and assessing the correctness of event-driven …

The supportive effect of traceability links in architecture-level software understanding: Two controlled experiments

MA Javed, U Zdun - 2014 IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The advocates of architecture traceability approaches regularly cite advantages like easier
understanding of architectural designs and support for software quality control and …

Two controlled experiments on model-based architectural decision making

I Lytra, P Gaubatz, U Zdun - Information and Software Technology, 2015 - Elsevier
Context In recent years, architectural design decisions are becoming more and more
common for documenting software architectures. Rather than describing the structure of …

Automatic enforcement of constraints in real-time collaborative architectural decision making

P Gaubatz, I Lytra, U Zdun - Journal of Systems and Software, 2015 - Elsevier
Making and documenting architectural design decisions becomes increasingly important in
the process of software architecting. However, the remoteness of different decision …

Do architectural design decisions improve the understanding of software architecture? two controlled experiments

M Shahin, P Liang, Z Li - … of the 22nd International Conference on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Architectural design decision (ADD) and its design rationale, as a paradigm shift on
documenting and enriching architecture design description, is supposed to facilitate the …