The coming-of-age of software architecture research

Abstract

Executive Summary• Technical ideas in software engineering evolve in predictable ways• This evolution pattern sets expectations for software architecture research• Lessons for developers: what to expect of software architecture research, now and in the future• Lessons for researchers: useful research paradigms and validation techniques

Writing good software engineering research papers

“…♦ There is little discussion of related work other than the essays about writing papers for other conferences. Although discussion of related work does appear in two complementary papers [19,20], this report does not stand alone. On the other hand, I believe that this report does meet Brooks' standard for "rules of thumb" (generalizations, signed by the author but perhaps incompletely supported by data, judged by usefulness and freshness), and I offer it in that sense.…”

“…I previously [19,20] discussed early steps toward such understanding, including a model of the way software engineering techniques mature [17,18] and critiques of the lack of rigor in experimental software engineering [1,22,23,24,25]. Those discussions critique software engineering research reports against the standards of classical paradigms.…”

Modeling Extenics Innovation Software by Intelligent Service Components

“…To describe large and complex software architecture, computer scientists in the development of large software systems is in the gradual deepening of understanding and development of software systems [21]. Industry introduced Darwin, Wright, ACME, A-ADL, XYZ/ADL Tracer and ABC/ADL software architecture description language, and uses the CRAM [22], Z language [23], Pi calculations [24][25][26], Bigraph [27][28][29][30], category theory [31][32][33] and software formal methods [34] to accurately describe software architecture. With the popularization of the Internet, network software [35][36][37][38][39] with open, dynamic evolution characteristics of self-government.…”

On the Scientific Maturity of Digital Forensics Research

“…We use the informal term "scientificness" to acknowledge the fuzziness of the concept of scientific maturity. This paper presents a scientific maturity assessment of digital forensics using the Shaw [45] software architecture science maturity scale. The transfer of this maturity scale, from software architecture to digital forensics, is justified by the similarity of the problems, including the shortage of scientificness (which was experienced in the domain of software architecture more than a decade ago) and the impact claims that both fields have in the physical world.…”

“…The remainder of this paper presents the software architecture scientificness scale [45]. The scale is used to assess the scientificness of the digital forensics research presented at the first and sixth IFIP WG 11.9 International Conferences on Digital Forensics held in 2005 and 2010, respectively.…”