Applied software architecture
Design and use of software architectures: adopting and evolving a product-line approach
Design and use of software architectures: adopting and evolving a product-line approach
Toward Reference Models for Requirements Traceability
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules
Communications of the ACM
A scenario-driven approach to traceability
ICSE '01 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering
Object Oriented Reengineering Patterns
Object Oriented Reengineering Patterns
Quality Attribute Design Primitives and the Attribute Driven Design Method
PFE '01 Revised Papers from the 4th International Workshop on Software Product-Family Engineering
Modelling strategic relationships for process reengineering
Modelling strategic relationships for process reengineering
An active hypertext model for system requirements
IWSSD '93 Proceedings of the 7th international workshop on Software specification and design
Architecture-level modifiability analysis (ALMA)
Journal of Systems and Software
Quantifying the Quality of Object-Oriented Design: The Factor-Strategy Model
WCRE '04 Proceedings of the 11th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
Goal-centric traceability for managing non-functional requirements
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
Object-Oriented Metrics in Practice
Object-Oriented Metrics in Practice
Transition from Requirements to Architecture: A Review and Future Perspective
SNPD-SAWN '06 Proceedings of the Seventh ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing
Introducing Impact Analysis for Architectural Decisions
ECBS '07 Proceedings of the 14th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems
Managing quality requirements using activity-based quality models
Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Software quality
Software Architectural Design Meets Security Engineering
ECBS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 16th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems
Impact evaluation for quality-oriented architectural decisions regarding evolvability
ECSA'10 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Software architecture
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Software architectures play a key role for the development and evolution of software systems because they have to enable their quality properties such as scalability, flexibility, and security. Software architectural decisions represent a transition from problem space with quality goals and requirements on one side to solution space with technical solutions on the other side. Technical solutions are reusable elements for the work of the architect as for example patterns, styles, frameworks and building blocks. For long-term evolution of the systems, an explicit mapping between goals and solutions is helpful for expressing design knowledge and fundamental decisions. Such a mapping has to bridge between the fields of requirements engineering, software architectural design, and software quality thus enabling reuse. In this paper the Goal Solution Scheme is discussed, which maps quality goals and goal refinements to architectural principles and solutions. The paper extends the approach from the previously discussed forward engineering to re-engineering activities thus covering evolutionary development processes. The evaluation of the approach has been performed in several case studies and projects including a large industrial one.