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Flexible architecture conformance assessment with ConQAT

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Florian Deissenboeck,

Lars Heinemann,

Benjamin Hummel,

Elmar JuergensAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '10: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2

Pages 247 - 250

https://doi.org/10.1145/1810295.1810343

Published: 01 May 2010 Publication History

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The architecture of software systems is known to decay if no counter-measures are taken. In order to prevent this architectural erosion, the conformance of the actual system architecture to its intended architecture needs to be assessed and controlled; ideally in a continuous manner. To support this, we present the architecture conformance assessment capabilities of our quality analysis framework ConQAT. In contrast to other tools, ConQAT is not limited to the assessment of use-dependencies between software components. Its generic architectural model allows the assessment of various types of dependencies found between different kinds of artifacts. It thereby provides the necessary tool-support for flexible architecture conformance assessment in diverse contexts.

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ICSE '10: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2

May 2010

554 pages

ISBN:9781605587196

DOI:10.1145/1810295

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Jeff Kramer
Imperial College, London, UK
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Microsoft Research, Redmond
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University of California at Davis
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Sebastian Uchitel
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Imperial College London, UK

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