Towards empirically validated software architecture visualization
SoftVis '06 Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Software visualization
An industrial case study of architecture conformance
Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Towards a Dependency Constraint Language to Manage Software Architectures
ECSA '08 Proceedings of the 2nd European conference on Software Architecture
An experiment on the role of graphical elements in architecture visualization
Empirical Software Engineering
A dependency constraint language to manage object-oriented software architectures
Software—Practice & Experience
Effort Estimation in Capturing Architectural Knowledge
ASE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Concepts of modeling architectural module views for compliance checks based on architectural styles
SEA '07 Proceedings of the 11th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications
Viability for codifying and documenting architectural design decisions with tool support
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
Towards behavioral reflexion models
ISSRE'09 Proceedings of the 20th IEEE international conference on software reliability engineering
Engineering high confidence medical device software
ACM SIGBED Review - Special Issue on the 2nd Joint Workshop on High Confidence Medical Devices, Software, and Systems (HCMDSS) and Medical Device Plug-and-Play (MD PnP) Interoperability
Assessing architectural drift in commercial software development: a case study
Software—Practice & Experience
On the problems with evolving Egemin's software product line
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Product Line Approaches in Software Engineering
Characterizing real-time reflexion-based architecture recovery: an in-vivo multi-case study
Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGSOFT conference on Quality of Software Architectures
Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
Modular specification and checking of structural dependencies
Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
JITTAC: a just-in-time tool for architectural consistency
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
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The software architecture is one of the most crucial artifacts within the lifecycle of a software system. Decisions made at the architectural level directly enable, facilitate, hamper, or interfere with the achievement of business goals, functional and quality requirements. Architecture evaluations play an important role in the development and evolution of software systems since they determine how adequate the architecture is for its intended usage. This paper summarizes our practical experience with using architecture evaluations and gives an overview on when and how static architecture evaluations contribute to architecture development. We identify ten distinct purposes and needs for static architecture evaluations and illustrate them using a set of industrial and academic case studies. In particular, we show how subsequent steps in architecture development are influenced by the results from architecture evaluations.