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Assessing the Evolvability of Software Architectures

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Object-Oriented Technology: ECOOP’98 Workshop Reader (ECOOP 1998)

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The quality of object-oriented architectures is measured by characteristics such as modularity, extensibility, flexibility, adaptability and reusability. It is recognised that software systems featuring these characteristics are much easier to evolve and maintain. However, rather than measuring (either qualitatively or quantitatively) and improving these characteristics, and thus indirectly improving the evolutionary aspects of software systems, we propose to address the problems of architectural evolution directly.

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  1. C. Lucas: “Documenting Reuse and Evolution with Reuse Contracts”, PhD Dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, September1997.

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  1. Programming Technology Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050, Brussel, Belgium

    Tom Mens & Kim Mens

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  1. University of Berne, Neubruckstr. 10, CH-3012, Berne, Switzerland

    Serge Demeyer

  2. Softcenter, University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, S-372 25, Ronneby, Sweden

    Jan Bosch

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Mens, T., Mens, K. (1998). Assessing the Evolvability of Software Architectures. In: Demeyer, S., Bosch, J. (eds) Object-Oriented Technology: ECOOP’98 Workshop Reader. ECOOP 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1543. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49255-0_7

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