Identifying Architectural Patterns Used in Open Source Software: Approaches and Challenges
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Background: Open Source Software (OSS) is increasingly used in product development. Besides some much-reported benefits of this approach, using OSS products also presents new challenges. One such challenge is identifying relevant, high-quality OSS products among the hundreds of thousands that are available. One approach for doing that is to identify architectural patterns, since these patterns have a direct effect on a product’s quality attributes, such as performance and reliability. However, there are no well-defined methods or tools available to identify architectural patterns.
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