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Methodological Framework for the Transition from Requirements to Software Architectures

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The quality of information systems heavily depends on software requirements engineering and software architecting. Both activities are the foundation for subsequent tasks, such as software development project planning, implementation, or maintenance. This paper introduces a methodological framework to support the transition from requirements to architectures. The framework consists of a process and different process modules (e.g., for systematic software architecture style selection). We also present a case study which shows higher modularity and lower coupling of architectures created using the proposed framework when compared to architectures created without the framework.

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  1. University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Matthias Galster

  2. American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

    Armin Eberlein

  3. University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Li Jiang

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  1. Monash University, Caaulfield East, Victoria, Australia

    Henry Linger

  2. Monash University, Caulfield East, Victoria, Australia

    Julie Fisher

  3. Box Hill Institute, Box Hill, Victoria, Australia

    Andrew Barnden

  4. National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

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  5. National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

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  6. City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR

    Christoph Schneider

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Galster, M., Eberlein, A., Jiang, L. (2013). Methodological Framework for the Transition from Requirements to Software Architectures. In: Linger, H., Fisher, J., Barnden, A., Barry, C., Lang, M., Schneider, C. (eds) Building Sustainable Information Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7540-8_11

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