Software architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline
Software architecture: perspectives on an emerging discipline
Toward a cooperative experimental system development approach
Computers and design in context
The 4+1 View Model of Architecture
IEEE Software
Software Architecture in Practice
Software Architecture in Practice
The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction
The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction
Architectural Prototyping: An Approach for Grounding Architectural Design and Learning
WICSA '04 Proceedings of the Fourth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture
Towards an Operational Framework for Architectural Prototyping
WICSA '05 Proceedings of the 5th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture
The Future of Empirical Methods in Software Engineering Research
FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
A Just-In-Time Architectural Knowledge Sharing Portal
WICSA '08 Proceedings of the Seventh Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2008)
Ready! Set! Go! An Action Research Agenda for Software Architecture Research
WICSA '08 Proceedings of the Seventh Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2008)
SA@Work A Field Study of Software Architecture and Software Quality at Work
APSEC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 15th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference
Exploring quality attributes using architectural prototyping
QoSA'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality, and Proceedings of the Second International conference on Software Quality
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Architectural prototyping is the process of using executable code to investigate stakeholders' software architecture concerns with respect to a system under development. Previous work has established this as a useful and cost-effective way of exploration and learning of the design space of a system and in addressing issues regarding quality attributes, architectural risks, and the problem of knowledge transfer and conformance. However, the actual industrial use of architectural prototyping has not been thoroughly researched so far. In this article, we report from three studies of architectural prototyping in practice. First, we report findings from an ethnographic study of practicing software architects. Secondly, we report from a focus group on architectural prototyping involving architects from four companies. And, thirdly, we report from a survey study of 20 practicing software architects and software developers. Our findings indicate that architectural prototyping plays an important and frequent role in resolving problems experimentally, but less so in exploring alternative solutions. Furthermore, architectural prototypes include end-user or business related functionality rather than purely architectural functionality. Based on these observations we provide recommendations for effective industrial architectural prototyping.