Architecture compliance checking - Experiences from successful technology transfer to industry

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 43-52

  Knodel, Jens ^a   Muthig, Dirk ^a   Haury, Uwe ^b   Meier, Gerald ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER IESE   (Germany)

^b Testo AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Architecture compliance checking; Product line engineering; PuLSE; SAVE; Software architecture; Technology transfer

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; FLUE GASES; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; MAINTENANCE; PAPER COATING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

ARCHITECTURE COMPLIANCE CHECKING; EUROPEAN; GAS MEASUREMENT DEVICES; HIGH-QUALITY; LESSONS LEARNED; MEASUREMENT DEVICES; NEW IDEAS; PRODUCT LINE ENGINEERING; PRODUCT LINES; PULSE; REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE; SAVE; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 50249146968     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2008.4493299     Document Type: Conference Paper

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