Although the quality of a system s software architecture is one of the critical factors in its overall quality, the architecture is simply a means to an end, the end being the implemented system. Thus the ultimate measure of the quality of the software architecture lies in the implemented system, in how well it satis?es the system and project requirements and constraints and whether it can be maintained and evolved successfully. In order to treat design as a science rather thananart, weneedtobeabletoaddressthequalityofthesoftwarearchitecture directly, not simply as it is re?ected in the...
Although the quality of a system s software architecture is one of the critical factors in its overall quality, the architecture is simply a means to ...
For more and more systems, software has moved from a peripheral to a central role, replacing mechanical parts and hardware and giving the product a competitive edge. Consequences of this trend are an increase in: the size of software systems, the variability in software artifacts, and the importance of software in achieving the system-level properties. Software architecture provides the necessary abstractions for managing the resulting complexity. We here introduce the Third Working IEEFlIFIP Conference on Software Architecture, WICSA3. That it is already the third such conference is in...
For more and more systems, software has moved from a peripheral to a central role, replacing mechanical parts and hardware and giving the product a co...
