Architecture-based Assessment and Planning of Change Requests

Software architecture reflects important decisions on structure, used technology and resources. Architecture decisions influence to a large extent requirements on software quality. During software evolution change requests have to be implemented in a way that the software maintains its quality, as various potential implementations of a specific change request influence the quality properties differently. Software development processes involve various organisational and technical roles. Thus, for sound decision making it is important to understand the consequences of the decisions on the various software engineering artefacts (e.g. architecture, code, test cases, build, or deployments) when analysing the impact of a change request. However, existing approaches do not use sufficient architecture descriptions or are limited to software development without taking management tasks into account. In this paper, we present the tool-supported approach Karlsruhe Architectural Maintainabili...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: QOSA
• Authors: Kiana Rostami, Johannes Stammel, Robert Heinrich, Ralf H. Reussner
• Keywords: QOSA 2015, Software Engineering