Article 1–1. Software Design and Structuring When I first read Barry Boehm’s “Software Design and Structuring” in the 1970s I sent it to my colleagues and said this article was fundamental to our work. Today I assign it to my students. It remains relevant today despite several sea changes in software engineering technology. Barry lays the foundation for software architecture as well as the fram...

views Basic views Parser Analyser View processing View builder Abstract program representation Figure 1 Basic reverse-engineering framework The first step is to transform the system’s artifacts (primarily the source code, but also the file structure, directory structure, build and make files) to some abstract representation from which further manipulation could be performed. The result of this ...

A software architecture is one of the first steps towards a software system. A software architecture can be designed in different ways. During the design phase, it is important to select the most suitable design of the architecture, in order to create a good foundation for the system. The selection process is performed by evaluating architecture alternatives against each other. We investigate t...

This paper examines the relations between software architecture and software configuration management. These disciplines overlap because they are both concerned with the structure of a software system being described in terms of components and relationships. On the other hand, they differ with respect to their focus — specific support for programming-in-the-large, versus general support for the...

Runtime environment of software are becoming more and more dynamic and changeful, while pervasive computing and web services further this situation. Software systems are not only becoming larger, more complex, and also more rigid, which make it difficult to evolve software. This paper focuses on online evolution, more exactly, how to make online evolution process convenient and smart, with help...

This paper introduces a new form of slicing, named architectural slicing, to aid architectural understanding and reuse.

Immersive, interactive applications grouped under the concept of Immersipresence require on-line processing and mixing of multimedia data streams and structures. One critical issue seldom addressed is the integration of different solutions to technical challenges, developed independently in separate fields, into working systems, that operate under hard performance constraints. In order to reali...

Software architectural design is becoming increasingly important in software engineering, as being manifested through various recent developments in the field such as the component-based software engineering paradigm and the distributed and collaborative computing paradigm. Abstraction is such a mechanism as the key concept underpinning software architecture, namely hiding the immense amount of...

In this paper, we first discuss the concept of architecture debt and how this debt grows in virtually every software-intensive project. Next we propose a methodology for developers to monitor the health of a project’s architecture through an analysis of the development artifacts that a project produces. Our objective is to monitor and manage architecture debt by leveraging an architecture model...