Design and use of industrial software architectures

Abstract

Summary form only given, as follows. Industry is increasingly performing its software development in the context of an explicitly defined software architecture. A typical example of this is formed by the recent adoption of product line architectures by several large corporations. The tutorial presents experiences and research results collected in the domain of software architecture within our research group based on our cooperation with a large collection of software development companies. More concretely, the tutorial presents experiences from architectural design, a method for architectural design, architecture evaluation techniques, and results from a case study on the problems and issues of industrial use of product-line architectures.