An experience report on detecting and repairing software architecture erosion

F.A. Fontana; R. Roveda; M. Zanoni; C. Raibulet; R. Capilla

doi:10.1109/WICSA.2016.37

An experience report on detecting and repairing software architecture erosion

F.A. Fontana, R. Roveda, M. Zanoni, C. Raibulet, R. Capilla

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© 2016 IEEE.Architecture erosion constitutes the most visible effect of the degradation of design. It is a major reason to address the design debt, often caused by architectural mismatch problems. Today, the identification of design erosion is a major concern for designers and software maintainers. Adequate tools are necessary to identify and repair the debt. This paper describes our experience on identifying architectural erosion problems on existing open source software applications through the support of two well known tools. Moreover, we outline if the tools provide useful hints in repairing some of the detected problems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2016 13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture, WICSA 2016
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	21-30
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509021314
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WICSA.2016.37
Publication status	Published - 19 Jul 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture, WICSA 2016 - Venice, Italy Duration: 5 Apr 2016 → 8 Apr 2016

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Conference	13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture, WICSA 2016
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Venice
Period	5/04/16 → 8/04/16

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Fontana, FA, Roveda, R, Zanoni, M, Raibulet, C & Capilla, R 2016, An experience report on detecting and repairing software architecture erosion. in Proceedings - 2016 13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture, WICSA 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 21-30, 13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture, WICSA 2016, Venice, Italy, 5/04/16. https://doi.org/10.1109/WICSA.2016.37

An experience report on detecting and repairing software architecture erosion. / Fontana, F.A.; Roveda, R.; Zanoni, M. et al.
Proceedings - 2016 13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture, WICSA 2016. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. p. 21-30.

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