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Software architecture at a large financial firm

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George Fairbanks,

Kevin Bierhoff,

Desmond D'SouzaAuthors Info & Claims

OOPSLA '06: Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications

Pages 815 - 823

https://doi.org/10.1145/1176617.1176729

Published: 22 October 2006 Publication History

Abstract

System builders have historically used informal software architecture models to understand options, make choices, and communicate with others. Research into software architecture over the past fifteen years has indicated that more precise architecture models may be beneficial. At a large financial firm, we applied precise software architecture techniques on four software projects and this experience has revealed a number of practical issues. We made the following observations across the projects: 1) Architecture models can be used to bridge gaps between business requirements and technology, 2) A small collection of techniques and a detail knob are practical and useful in a variety of projects, 3) Architecture modeling techniques amplify the skills of the architects, 4) A model of domain concepts and relationships is helpful when building architecture models, and 5) It is difficult to know when to stop adding detail to your architecture model. We believe that these observations motivate future research and can help practitioners make software architecture more effective in practice.

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Viggiato MOliveira JFigueiredo EJamshidi PKästner CCalefato FTell PDubey A(2019)Understanding similarities and differences in software development practices across domainsProceedings of the 14th International Conference on Global Software Engineering10.1109/ICGSE.2019.00013(74-84)Online publication date: 25-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICGSE.2019.00013
Xie PGui X(2012)Distributed software architecture of manufacturing integrated service platform based on SOA2012 International Conference on Systems and Informatics (ICSAI2012)10.1109/ICSAI.2012.6223292(134-139)Online publication date: May-2012
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSAI.2012.6223292

Index Terms

Software architecture at a large financial firm
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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OOPSLA '06: Companion to the 21st ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications

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DOI:10.1145/1176617

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Viggiato MOliveira JFigueiredo EJamshidi PKästner CCalefato FTell PDubey A(2019)Understanding similarities and differences in software development practices across domainsProceedings of the 14th International Conference on Global Software Engineering10.1109/ICGSE.2019.00013(74-84)Online publication date: 25-May-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICGSE.2019.00013
Xie PGui X(2012)Distributed software architecture of manufacturing integrated service platform based on SOA2012 International Conference on Systems and Informatics (ICSAI2012)10.1109/ICSAI.2012.6223292(134-139)Online publication date: May-2012
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSAI.2012.6223292

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