Structural Complexity in Architecture-Centric Software Evolution

In a previous Computer column, "How Business Goals Drive Architectural Design" (Aug. 2007, pp. 101-103), an architecture-centric approach to software design in which the final architecture embodies the systemic properties and nonfunctional requirements that are critical to the application&...

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Published in:Computer (Long Beach, Calif.) Calif.), 2008-10, Vol.41 (10), p.96-99
Main Authors: Sangwan, R.S., Li-Ping Lin, Neill, C.J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied sciences
Business
Collaborative work
Columns (structural)
Complexity
Computer architecture
Computer programs
Computer science
control theory
systems
Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface
Design engineering
Drives
Evolution
Exact sciences and technology
Internet
Maintenance
Object oriented modeling
Software
software architectures
Software design
Software engineering
software evolution
Speech
Systems design
Systems development
Teleconferencing
Testing
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Summary:In a previous Computer column, "How Business Goals Drive Architectural Design" (Aug. 2007, pp. 101-103), an architecture-centric approach to software design in which the final architecture embodies the systemic properties and nonfunctional requirements that are critical to the application's success was proposed. Here, it is considered whether such an approach produces systems that are subsequently easier to evolve. Using an Internet-based collaborative system and its whiteboard subsystem as an example, it is shown that architecture-centric methods can result in a significantly improved system that not only meets its quality expectations but is not excessively complex.
ISSN:0018-9162
1558-0814
DOI:10.1109/MC.2008.434