Detecting architecture instabilities with concern traces: An exploratory study

Eduardo Figueiredo; I. Galvao; Safoora Shakil Khan; Alessandro Garcia; Claudio Sant'Anna; Afonso Pimentel; Ana Luisa Medeiros; Lyrene Fernandes; Thais Batista; Rita Ribeiro; P.M. van den Broek; Mehmet Aksit; Steffen Zschaler; Ana Moreira

doi:10.1109/WICSA.2009.5290815

Detecting architecture instabilities with concern traces: An exploratory study

Eduardo Figueiredo, I. Galvao, Safoora Shakil Khan, Alessandro Garcia, Claudio Sant'Anna, Afonso Pimentel, Ana Luisa Medeiros, Lyrene Fernandes, Thais Batista, Rita Ribeiro, P.M. van den Broek, Mehmet Aksit, Steffen Zschaler, Ana Moreira

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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.

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Title of host publication	Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture 2009 and European Conference on Software Architecture 2009, WICSA/ECSA 2009
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	261-264
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-4985-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WICSA.2009.5290815
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture 2009 and European Conference on Software Architecture 2009, WICSA/ECSA 2009: Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture 2009 and European Conference on Software Architecture 2009, WICSA/ECSA 2009 - Cambridge, UK Duration: 14 Sept 2009 → 17 Sept 2009

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Conference	Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture 2009 and European Conference on Software Architecture 2009, WICSA/ECSA 2009
Period	14/09/09 → 17/09/09
Other	14-17 September 2009

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METIS-264166
EWI-16548
SE-SA: Software Architecture
IR-68581

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Figueiredo, E., Galvao, I., Shakil Khan, S., Garcia, A., Sant'Anna, C., Pimentel, A., Medeiros, A. L., Fernandes, L., Batista, T., Ribeiro, R., van den Broek, P. M., Aksit, M., Zschaler, S., & Moreira, A. (2009). Detecting architecture instabilities with concern traces: An exploratory study. In Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture 2009 and European Conference on Software Architecture 2009, WICSA/ECSA 2009 (pp. 261-264). Article 10.1109/WICSA.2009.5290815 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/WICSA.2009.5290815

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Detecting architecture instabilities with concern traces: An exploratory study. / Figueiredo, Eduardo; Galvao, I.; Shakil Khan, Safoora et al.
Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture 2009 and European Conference on Software Architecture 2009, WICSA/ECSA 2009. IEEE, 2009. p. 261-264 10.1109/WICSA.2009.5290815.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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