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 ...

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 ...

Documenting architectural knowledge is a tedious and time-consuming task from the knowledge producer's point of view. As a consequence, design decisions, the underlying rationale, and the resulting designs are poorly ...

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 ...