Lightweight Prevention of Architectural Erosion

C O'Reilly; PJ Morrow; DW Bustard

doi:10.1109/IWPSE.2003.1231211

Lightweight Prevention of Architectural Erosion

C O'Reilly
, PJ Morrow
, DW Bustard

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Abstract

Avoiding architectural erosion helps extend the lifetime of an evolving software system Erosion can be reduced by ensuring that (i) developers share a good understanding of a system's architecture; (ii) alignment is preserved between the architectural description and its implementation at all stages of system construction and maintenance; and (iii) architectural changes are treated with the same care and attention as the production of the initial design. Through the metaphor of 'agile development' this paper presents a lightweight approach to the control of architectural erosion. In particular, it covers the representation of an architectural description and the management of alignment between description and implementation during system evolution. A prototype support tool, ArchAngel, is introduced. This maintains an architectural design description, identifies when changes occur with respect to that description, and reports these changes for evaluation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Unknown Host Publication
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	59-64
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IWPSE.2003.1231211
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 1 Sept 2003
Event	International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE 2003) - Helsinki, Finland Duration: 1 Sept 2003 → …

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Workshop	International Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE 2003)
Period	1/09/03 → …

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