Open AccessDifficulties and challenges in the incorporation of architectural practices
Author(s) -
Flor de María Hernández Pérez,
Julio Ariel Hurtado Algeria
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
sistemas and telematica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1692-5238
DOI - 10.18046/syt.v14i38.2290
Subject(s) - computer science , software engineering , architectural pattern , key (lock) , software architecture , architecture , trace (psycholinguistics) , software development , software , process (computing) , asset (computer security) , quality (philosophy) , software architecture description , process management , reference architecture , knowledge management , software construction , engineering , computer security , programming language , art , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology , visual arts
The architecture software has become a key asset for software organizations because it facilitates achieving quality goals and developing of easy evolvable products. However, in small organizations, software architecture is usually a vague idea about the structure of solution. In this paper, a case of applying several methods of architecture (QAW, ADD and VaB) with small teams constituted by software developers, during a course of software development, is presented. Some difficulties to trace and correctly document the rationale associated with quality attributes, tactics architectural and selected patterns, were identified. It was established the difficulty of following an architectural process and to let consistent evidence about that, especially when the same specification generates conflict between the established attributes and tactics and patterns that going establishing..