A Survey on Characterizing the Empirical Analysis, Proposed Approaches, and Research Trends for Architectural Decay

Abstract

This decay does not happen overnight, but rather it's cumulative impacts over time. Even though the prior works covered various aspects concerning maintaining architecture from erosion, however, the common factor in the existing studies does not provide full detail about the empirical analysis, perceptions of the proposed approaches, and trendy track of the architectural decay research. There are existing review studies on analysis techniques and approaches of various architectural decay, but to the best of our knowledge, insufficient focus was considered on precisely the description of the empirical analysis, techniques, approaches, and trends for studies that have been evaluated concerning architectural decay. This study provides a comprehensive survey and detailed investigation on the empirical analysis regarding research design and its method, existing approaches analysis to identify used strategies, and trendy research to clarify trendy track for researchers and what evolves from a meaningful essential idea concerns the researchers within the architectural degradation field.

An Empirical Analysis of Approach-Based Metrics Model for Architectural Erosion Detection

“…7 . This phenomenon is commonly referred to as Architectural Erosion (AE) [8][9][10][11][12][13] , Software Architecture Degradation (SAD) [14][15][16][17] , Architectural Decay (AD) [18][19][20] . According to a survey of the studies conducted by the researchers working in this field, the term Architecture Erosion (AE) or Architectural Erosion (AE) is the one that is used in most of their studies.…”