@inproceedings{0e54e79b41914257966b1512677c7b31,
title = "Detecting architecture instabilities with concern traces: An exploratory study",
abstract = "Sustaining architecture stability in incremental software development is an important aim for software engineers. Traceability mechanisms can be used to assess and predict architecture stability based on recorded information of early software artefacts. However, there is little empirical knowledge on whether traceability of stakeholders' concerns can assist the identification of architecture instabilities. This paper reports on a first exploratory study that analyses the effectiveness of concern traces for architecture stability assessment. We investigate to what extent properties of concern traces, such as their shapes, are correlated with architectural instabilities. Our analysis is based on eight releases implementing two versions of a software product line for handling mobile media.",
keywords = "METIS-264166, EWI-16548, SE-SA: Software Architecture, IR-68581",
author = "Eduardo Figueiredo and I. Galvao and {Shakil Khan}, Safoora and Alessandro Garcia and Claudio Sant'Anna and Afonso Pimentel and Medeiros, {Ana Luisa} and Lyrene Fernandes and Thais Batista and Rita Ribeiro and {van den Broek}, P.M. and Mehmet Aksit and Steffen Zschaler and Ana Moreira",
note = "10.1109/WICSA.2009.5290815 ; null ; Conference date: 14-09-2009 Through 17-09-2009",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1109/WICSA.2009.5290815",
language = "Undefined",
isbn = "978-1-4244-4985-9",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "261--264",
booktitle = "Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture 2009 and European Conference on Software Architecture 2009, WICSA/ECSA 2009",
address = "United States",
}