Architectural decay during continuous software evolution and impact of 'design for change' on software architecture

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 59 CCIS, Issue , 2009, Pages 119-126

  Riaz, Mehwish ^a   Sulayman, Muhammad ^a   Naqvi, Husnain ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Architectural Decay; Software Architecture; Software Evolution

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DECAY; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; PROPER DESIGN; QUALITY SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION;

BIOLOGY; DECAY (ORGANIC); DESIGN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 78049356237     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10619-4_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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