Paper Info
Title
An Empirical Study of Software Architects' Concerns
Abstract
When designing for a group of professionals, it is important to know their work practice. This is well-known and practised, e.g., in agile software development in which customers are involved in development work, but less so when the professionals are software engineers or in particular software architects. In the SA@Work project, we have extensively studied software architect work at four Danish companies using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. In this paper, we report on concerns (analysis, design, evaluation, realization, management, and interaction) that software architects have in their work. Our lessons learnt are software architecture work (in the setting that we studied) is as much about non-technical as technical work, that architecture is often found "in the small" and that architects vary widely in type. Furthermore, we point to lessons for future research and development of software architecture techniques.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/APSEC.2009.12
APSEC
Keywords
Field
DocType
software architecture,software development management,Danish companies,SA@Work project,customers,nontechnical work,software architect concerns,software architecture,software development,software engineers,technical work,empirical study,ethnography,software architects,software architecture
Personal software process,Software review,Systems engineering,Software peer review,Software documentation,Software project management,Software development process,Engineering,Software development,Social software engineering
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1530-1362
4
0.43
References 
Authors
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Henrik Bærbak Christensen134637.74
Klaus Marius Hansen258554.14
Kari Rye Schougaard3222.08