Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

12-2023

Abstract

Software architecture has been an active research field for nearly four decades, in which previous studies make significant progress such as creating methods and techniques and building tools to support software architecture practice. Despite past efforts, we have little understanding of how practitioners perform software architecture related activities, and what challenges they face. Through interviews with 32 practitioners from 21 organizations across three continents, we identified challenges that practitioners face in software architecture practice during software development and maintenance. We reported on common software architecture activities at software requirements, design, construction and testing, and maintenance stages, as well as corresponding challenges. Our study uncovers that most of these challenges center around management, documentation, tooling and process, and collects recommendations to address these challenges.

Keywords

Architecture practice, Common software, Design construction, Grounded theory, Method and technique, Practice, Research fields, Software development and maintenances, Software requirements, Software testing

Discipline

Databases and Information Systems | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

ESEC/FSE '23: Proceedings of ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, San Francisco, December 3-9

First Page

1457

Last Page

1469

ISBN

9798400703270

Identifier

10.1145/3611643.3616367

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3611643.3616367

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