Today software systems are frequently faced with demands for changes, for example, due to changing business processes or technologies. The software and especially its architecture has to cope with those frequent changes to permanently remain usable. During software evolution changes can lead to a deterioration of the structure of software architectures called architectural erosion, which hamper...

Agile techniques may produce software faster as well as enhance software quality so that they fulfill quality requirements of the product. In this paper we have considered some quality factors and we have shown how agile techniques enhance software quality. We have presented an agile development life cycle that showing its software quality support processes. Finally we have shown summarization ...

Software architectures constitute a crucial factor for the development and evolution of software systems because they have to sustain their quality properties like flexibility, scalability, or security. A software architecture has to reflect the transition from the problem space with quality goals and requirements on one side to the solution space with technical solutions on the other side. A m...

Design of software architecture is intellectually one of the most demanding tasks in software engineering. This paper proposes an approach to automatically synthesize software architecture using genetic algorithms. The technique applies architectural patterns for mutations and quality metrics for evaluating individual architectures, producing a proposal for a software architecture on the basis ...

In a software system’s development lifecycle, engineers make numerous design decisions that subsequently cause architectural change in the system. Previous studies have shown that, more often than not, these architectural changes are unintentional by-products of continual software maintenance tasks. The result of inadvertent architectural changes is accumulation of technical debt and deteriorat...

We focus on the problem of developing robotic architectures which are well-suited to supporting runtime evolution, rather than specific evolution techniques. Based on the insights provided by current robotic architectures, we elaborate on their characteristics and how well they support the quality of evolvability. Combined with insights from architectural styles developed by the software engine...

   The histories of architectural design and town planning are replete with references to creating a better quality of human life. One of the approaches to enhancing human existence is Vāstu Vidyā, the knowledge of design and building from the ancient Vedic tradition. More recently, Vāstu Vidyā has been repurposed to include not only architectural practice and construction but also considered i...