Risks and risk management in software architecture evolution: An industrial survey

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 101-108

  Slyngstad, O P N ^a   Conradi, Reidar ^a   Babar, M Ali ^b   Clerc, Viktor ^c   Van Vliet, Hans ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Risk management; Software architecture; Software architecture evaluation; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS RISKS; DIRECT LINKS; INDUSTRIAL SURVEYS; LOW LEVEL; MANAGEMENT ISSUES; POTENTIAL RISKS; RISK CATEGORIES; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; STRUCTURED EVALUATION;

ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DECISION MAKING; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SURVEYS;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 67650528854     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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