Modifiability through Architecture Analysis.
N.H. Lassing, PerOlof Bengtsson, Jan Bosch, D.B.B. Rijsenbrij, Hans J. van der Vliet · 2000
Software evolves. One of the challenges that organizations are facing is how to reduce the costs associated with these adaptations. To address this issue, software architecture is seen as an important tool. A system's software architecture is generally regarded to have a large influence on the effort required to adapt a system [1]. Therefore, analysis of the decisions made at the architectural level is important to achieve modifiability and reduce the costs of maintenance. The area addressing this is software architecture analysis of modifiability. We have developed a method for this type of analysis, which is presented in this paper.