作为控制软件复杂性, 提高软件系统质量, 支持软件开发和复用的重要手段之一,
软件体系结构自提出以来, 日益受到软件研究者和实践者的关注, 并发展成为软件工程的一个 …

Software product lines (SPLs) are used in industry to develop families of similar software
systems. Legacy systems, either highly configurable or with a story of versions and local …

If a software architecture is a key business asset for an organization, then architectural
analysis must also be a key practice for that organization. Why? Because architectures are …

The ability to evolve software rapidly and reliably is a major challenge for software
engineering. In this introductory chapter we start with a historic overview of the research …

To maintain and understand large applications, it is important to know their architecture. The
first problem is that unlike classes and packages, architecture is not explicitly represented in …

The documentation is missing or obsolete, and the original developers have departed. Your
team has limited understanding of the system, and unit tests are missing for many, if not all …

A five-fold increase in leakage current is predicted with each technology generation. While
Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) is known to reduce dynamic power consumption, it also …

With the growing emphasis on reuse, software development process moves toward
component-based software design. As a result, there is a need for modeling approaches that …

An approach to managing the architecture of large software systems is presented.
Dependencies are extracted from the code by a conventional static analysis, and shown in a …

Software architectures capture the most significant properties and design constraints of
software systems. Thus, modifications to a system that violate its architectural principles can …