The importance of software architecture is largely recognized also in iterative and agile
development settings. However, it is quite complex to provide evidence that an architecture …

Context: During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, an international and
heterogeneous team of scientists collaborated on a social project to produce a mechanical …

Driven by software, the automotive domain is living an unprecedented revolution with
original equipment manufacturers increasingly becoming software companies. Vehicle …

The automotive domain is rapidly changing in the last years. Among the different challenges
OEMs (ie the vehicle manufacturers) are facing, vehicles are evolving into systems of …

Abstract Context Software Architecture (SA) and Source Code (SC) are two intertwined
artefacts that represent the interdependent design decisions made at different levels of …

As a predominant design method for microsservices architecture (MSA), domain‐driven
design (DDD) utilizes a series of standard patterns in both models and implementations to …

Documenting software architecture is important for a system's success. Software architecture
documentation (SAD) makes information about the system available and eases …

Large-scale systems development commonly faces the challenge of managing relevant
knowledge between different organizational groups, particularly in increasingly agile …

Context In automotive, stage-gate processes have previously been the norm, with
architecture created mainly during an early phase and then used to guide subsequent …

Abstract Software Architecture Documentation often consists of different artifacts. On the one
hand, there is informal textual documentation. On the other hand, there are formal models of …