There are many terms used in the industry that relate to similar topics. Architecture is one of them. In many companies, representatives develop Information Architectures even though this term was conceptualized to be used ...

Reusable and evolvable Software Engineering Environments (SEES) are essential to software production and have increasingly become a need. In another perspective, software architectures and reference architectures have ...

Prior research has established a relationship between coordination of software development activities and software architecture both in collocated and distributed projects. Despite the recognized importance of the software ...

Conducting an effective planning software is critical to their development, it is necessary to estimate, measure and control: time, cost and complexity. It needs to go beyond the idealization in diagrams for execution, ...

Understand the structure of an unknown software is never an easy task to be done. With the help of purpose in understanding the architecture of a software tools that are able to analyze the source code and shape the system ...

This paper describes and performs a study on Model Driven Architecture (MDA). An approach to software development driven models featuring different levels of abstraction in order to separate the conceptual architecture of ...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) together with agile development practices have shown a largely favorable strategy for organizations looking for improving time-to-market and business agility. SOA is an architectural ...

Design of stable software architectures has increasingly been a deep challenge to software developers due to the high volatility of their concerns and respective design decisions. Architecture stability is the ability of ...

Architectural design is a critical phase of system development, because decisions taken in this phase have an important impact over the cost and quality of final system. One of the biggest problems faced by software ...