Software architecture evolution through evolvability analysis

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2574-2592

  Breivold, Hongyu Pei ^a   Crnkovic, Ivica ^b   Larsson, Magnus ^a  

^a ABB CORPORATE RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Software architecture evolution; Software evolvability

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHOD; ANALYSIS PROCESS; ARCHITECTURAL LEVELS; ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTIONS; ECONOMIC VALUES; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; ERICSSON; EVOLVABILITY; FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS; INDUSTRIAL SOFTWARE; LONG LIFE; QUALITATIVE METHOD; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; QUANTITATIVE TREATMENT; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE LIFE CYCLES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STRATEGIC DECISIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84865263003     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2012.05.085     Document Type: Article

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