Progress of research on software architecture

Ruan Jian Xue Bao/Journal of Software

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1257-1275

  Mei, Hong ^a   Shen, Jun Rong ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Software architecture; Software lifecycle; Survey

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; RESEARCH; SURVEYS;

ARCHITECTURAL PRESCRIPTION LANGUAGE (APL); FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT (FR); SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE LIFECYCLE; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOFTWARE REUSE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33746823361     PISSN: 10009825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/jos171257     Document Type: Review

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