کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
435317 1441714 2012 26 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The supportive effect of patterns in architecture decision recovery— A controlled experiment
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی کامپیوتر نظریه محاسباتی و ریاضیات
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
The supportive effect of patterns in architecture decision recovery— A controlled experiment
چکیده انگلیسی

The documentation of software architectural design decisions is important to help people understand the system and the rationale behind architectural solutions. In practice, the documentation of such decisions is regularly done after the fact, or skipped completely. To support software maintenance and evolution, the decisions have to be recovered and described. This is often hindered by the fact that the original architects are not available any more, or they do not completely remember the reasons for making the decisions. Additionally, the whole process is very expensive. In this paper, we hypothesize that architecture decision recovery can be more efficient by focusing on recovering decisions related to applying architecture patterns. To test this hypothesis, we designed a controlled experiment that was conducted to analyze the impact of architecture patterns on the quality and quantity of architecture decisions recovered after the fact. We are able to provide statistical evidence that a focus on patterns significantly increases the quality of decisions, while no conclusive evidence concerning the quantity of decisions was found.


► A controlled experiment with participants from the industry and academia.
► Pattern based architecture decision recovery increases the quality of decisions.
► A focus on patterns does not increase the quantity of decisions.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Science of Computer Programming - Volume 77, Issue 5, 1 May 2012, Pages 551–576
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