Identifying Software Architecture Erosion Through Code Comments

Bandara, Vidudaya; Perera, Indika

doi:10.1109/icter.2018.8615560

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“…e increase of architecture complexity will reduce software performance. In order to reduce the negative impact of architecture erosion on software, timely discovering, analyzing, and solving architecture erosion is an important task in the process of software development and maintenance [14,15].…”

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confidence: 99%

A Prediction Method for Evolution Effects of Software Architecture

Wang

Chen

Wang

2021

Security and Communication Networks

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Software architecture evolution may lead to architecture erosion, resulting in the increase of software maintenance cost, the deterioration of software quality, the decline of software performance, and so on. In order to avoid software architecture erosion, we should evaluate the evolution effect of software architecture in time. This paper proposes a prediction method for the evolution effects of software architecture based on BP network. Firstly, this method proposes four evolution principles and evaluates the overall evolution effects based on the combined measurements. Then, we extract the evolutionary activities from release notes. Finally, we establish a prediction model for evolution effect based on BP network. Experimental results show that the proposed method can be used to predict the evolution effect.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Prediction Method for Evolution Effects of Software Architecture

Wang

Chen

Wang

2021

Security and Communication Networks

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“…It occurs when the implemented software architecture, representing the system's actual functions, differs from the planned architecture, representing the system's original design. Several factors may contribute to architectural erosion, such as the architectural change of a system over time [24], developer mistakes, bad practices [27], disregard of fundamental architectural rules of a system due to the modification. Consequently, continuing architectural erosion could shorten the system lifetime or re-engineering from scratch [27,28].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Several factors may contribute to architectural erosion, such as the architectural change of a system over time [24], developer mistakes, bad practices [27], disregard of fundamental architectural rules of a system due to the modification. Consequently, continuing architectural erosion could shorten the system lifetime or re-engineering from scratch [27,28].…”

Section: B Architectural Erosionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Characterizing the Architectural Erosion Metrics: A Systematic Mapping Study

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Software architecture is crucial in determining success or failure in a variety of software development and design fields. Typically, as a system evolves, software architecture deteriorates. This phenomenon is known as architectural erosion. Several studies have addressed architectural erosion based on different solutions. As a result, the metrics technique is the most prevalent solution for architectural erosion. Nevertheless, a comprehensive description of architectural erosion metrics remains unorganized and scattered. This work aims to conduct a systematic mapping to describe and analyze the architectural erosion metrics to provide an overview of erosion metrics and their current trends. Furthermore, no systematic attempts have been made on architectural erosion metrics. The final samples of this study were specified as a total of 43 included papers. Nearly 100 architectural erosion metrics were found. We proposed nine classifications to address architectural erosion challenges, based on adopted approaches in primary studies. The metrics of architectural erosion provide strong evidence for identifying decay and a rapid enabler factor for the adoption of numerous metrics mechanisms to address architectural erosion. The classification of metrics, which is the first of its kind, benefits researchers and practitioners. However, it can be concluded that various aspects are still ambiguous and require further research on architectural erosion measures.

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