Paper Info
Title
Architecture knowledge management during system evolution: observations from practitioners
Abstract
It is widely accepted that awareness of architectural decisions enables better management and planning of system evolution, refactoring, and modernization efforts. In this paper we report data from interviews with software architects about how practitioners utilize architecture during system evolution. Our results show, despite the widely shared view that long-lived systems are better off with strong architectures; basic architecture-centric practices are not followed systematically. The key gap we observe is in correct and timely communication of architectural issues. This overall finding is not surprising. However, our data also contributes to how architecture knowledge management activities can be focused for most benefit throughout a system's lifespan. While the often-referenced problem is lack of time spent on documentation and design practices, our interviews show that lack of quality attribute reasoning early on, and during the lifespan of the system is a key contributor to failing to use architecture knowledge effectively during evolution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1833335.1833343
SHARK@ICSE
Field
DocType
Citations 
Database-centric architecture,Data architecture,Enterprise architecture,Software architecture description,Knowledge management,Software architecture,Engineering,Enterprise architecture framework,View model,Enterprise architecture management
Conference
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
16
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ipek Ozkaya171850.34
Peter Wallin2141.07
Jakob Axelsson317526.05