NASA's advanced multimission operations system: A case study in software architecture evolution

QoSA'12 - Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGSOFT Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3-12

  Barnes, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Case study; Software evolution

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURE; ASTROPHYSICS MISSIONS; FEATURE REQUESTS; JET PROPULSION LABORATORY; MULTI-MISSION OPERATIONS; PROJECT DOCUMENTS; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE PROJECT; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS;

AIRCRAFT PROPULSION; ASTROPHYSICS; NASA; RESEARCH;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84864055132     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2304696.2304700     Document Type: Conference Paper

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