A lightweight sanity check for implemented architectures

IEEE Software

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 44-50

  Bouwers, Eric ^a   Van Deursen, Arie ^b  

^a Software Improvement Group   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Architecture erosion; Software architecture evaluation; Software architectures; Software quality

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL EVALUATION; ARCHITECTURE EROSION; ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION; ARCHITECTURE REVIEW; EARLY DETECTION; EVALUATION METHOD; PROJECT MANAGERS; SANITY CHECK; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION; SOFTWARE QUALITY; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TOOL SUPPORT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; MAINTAINABILITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 77953693055     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2010.60     Document Type: Article

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