Towards supporting the software architecture life cycle

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 546-561

  Weinreich, Rainer ^a   Buchgeher, Georg ^b  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b SOFTWARE COMPETENCE CENTER HAGENBERG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Software architecture; Software architecture analysis; Software architecture design; Software architecture evaluation; Software architecture knowledge management; Software architecture life cycle; Software architecture model; Software architecture tools

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE DESCRIPTION; ARCHITECTURE DESIGNS; ARCHITECTURE MODELS; INCREMENTAL DEVELOPMENT; INFORMATION MODELS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTEGRATED TOOLS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE MODEL; SOFTWARE LIFE CYCLES; STILL MISSING; SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION; SYSTEM PROPERTY;

DESIGN; INFORMATION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LIFE CYCLE;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84857369375     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2011.05.036     Document Type: Article

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