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Tracing architectural concerns in high assurance systems (NIER track)

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Mehdi Mirakhorli,

Jane Cleland-HuangAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '11: Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1985793.1985942

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Software architecture is shaped by a diverse set of interacting and competing quality concerns, each of which may have broad-reaching impacts across multiple architectural views. Without traceability support, it is easy for developers to inadvertently change critical architectural elements during ongoing system maintenance and evolution, leading to architectural erosion. Unfortunately, existing traceability practices, tend to result in the proliferation of traceability links, which can be difficult to create, maintain, and understand. We therefore present a decision-centric approach that focuses traceability links around the architectural decisions that have shaped the delivered system. Our approach, which is informed through an extensive investigation of architectural decisions made in real-world safety-critical and performance-critical applications, provides enhanced support for advanced software engineering tasks.

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DOI:10.1145/1985793

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