Making the Case for Centralized Software Architecture Management

Georg Buchgeher; Rainer Weinreich; T. Kriechbaum

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-27033-3_8

Making the Case for Centralized Software Architecture Management

Georg Buchgeher
, Rainer Weinreich
, T. Kriechbaum

Institute of Business Informatics - Software Engineering

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Abstract

Architectural knowledge is an important artifact for many software development and quality control activities. Examples for qual- ity control activities based on architectural information are architecture reviews, dependency analyses, and conformance analyses. Architecture is also an important artifact for understanding, reuse, evolution, and main- tenance. Unfortunately, in many projects architectural knowledge often remains implicit and is not available for a particular system stakeholder or outdated when it is actually needed. To address this problem, we pro- pose to manage semi-formal software architecture knowledge in a central repository, where it is accessible to all stakeholders and where it can be automatically and continuously updated and analyzed by different tools. In this paper we discuss important elements and use cases of such an approach, and present an example for an architecture knowledge and information repository in the context of an enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Software Quality Days 2016 (SWQD 2016), scientific track, Vienna, Austria, January 18-21, 2016
Editors	Dietmar Winkler, Stefan Biffl Johannes Bergsmann
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	109-121
Number of pages	13
Volume	238
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-27033-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27033-3_8
Publication status	Published - Jan 2016

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Name	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP)

Fields of science

202005 Computer architecture
202017 Embedded systems
102 Computer Sciences
102002 Augmented reality
102006 Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW)
102015 Information systems
102022 Software development
202022 Information technology
502032 Quality management
502050 Business informatics

JKU Focus areas

Computation in Informatics and Mathematics
Management and Innovation

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Buchgeher, G., Weinreich, R., & Kriechbaum, T. (2016). Making the Case for Centralized Software Architecture Management. In Dietmar Winkler, Stefan Biffl Johannes Bergsmann (Ed.), Software Quality Days 2016 (SWQD 2016), scientific track, Vienna, Austria, January 18-21, 2016 (Vol. 238, pp. 109-121). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP)). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27033-3_8

Buchgeher, Georg ; Weinreich, Rainer ; Kriechbaum, T. / Making the Case for Centralized Software Architecture Management. Software Quality Days 2016 (SWQD 2016), scientific track, Vienna, Austria, January 18-21, 2016. editor / Dietmar Winkler, Stefan Biffl Johannes Bergsmann. Vol. 238 Springer International Publishing, 2016. pp. 109-121 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP)).

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Buchgeher G, Weinreich R, Kriechbaum T. Making the Case for Centralized Software Architecture Management. In Dietmar Winkler, Stefan Biffl Johannes Bergsmann, editor, Software Quality Days 2016 (SWQD 2016), scientific track, Vienna, Austria, January 18-21, 2016. Vol. 238. Springer International Publishing. 2016. p. 109-121. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-27033-3_8

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