Long-living software systems are sustainable if they can be cost-efficiently maintained and
evolved over their entire life-cycle. The quality of software architectures determines …

It is widely accepted that software measures provide an appropriate mechanism for
understanding, monitoring, controlling, and predicting the quality of software development …

Practices designed to expedite the delivery of stakeholder value can paradoxically lead to
unexpected rework costs that ultimately degrade the flow of value over time. This is …

Despite decades of research on software metrics, we still cannot reliably measure if one
design is more maintainable than another. Software managers and architects need to …

Developers spend a substantial amount of their time with program comprehension. To
improve their comprehension and refresh their memory, developers need to communicate …

Architectural technical debt (ATD) is incurred by design decisions that consciously or
unconsciously compromise system-wide quality attributes, particularly maintainability and …

As software projects continue to grow in scale, being able to maximize the work that
developers can carry out in parallel as a set of concurrent development tasks, without …

Context: Most modern software systems exist in different variants to address a variety of
requirements, such as customer requests, regulations, or hardware restrictions. To benefit …

Energy consumption is a concern in the data-center and at the edge, on mobile devices
such as smartphones. Software that consumes too much energy threatens the utility of the …

CONTEXT: It is important for Product Line Architectures (PLA) to remain stable
accommodating evolutionary changes of stakeholder's requirements. Otherwise …