A maturity model based on ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011 to identify technical debt in software architecture

• Autor(a) principal: Costa Júnior, Ademir Almeida da
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/14158
• topic: Arquitetura de software; Engenharia de software; Mapeamento sistemático; Architecture description; Maturity model; Systematic mapping study; Technical debt; CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::CIENCIA DA COMPUTACAO

Software architecture is considered an important area of Software Engineering, as it is useful for managing the development and maintenance of large scale software-intensive systems. The software architecture as a development product is useful for technical activities, such as describing the views and concerns of the future software products, as well as for management activities, including allocating tasks to each team and as an input for project management activities. One main issue when describing the software architecture is knowing what elements must be included in the architecture, and at what level of detail. Thus, the description of a Software Architecture has been considered a crucial deliverable in a software development process because it is read by many stakeholders when developing and maintaining complex software systems that are composed of multiple elements, including software, systems, hardware, and processes. Due to Software Architecture importance, the ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011 standard was published in 2011. In order to facilitate and assist in the documentation of software architecture, many contributions have been proposed in the past decades for architectural standards, provided by academia and industry. This master thesis proposes the use of standard ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011 to develop a maturity model, named ArchCaMo, which is based on sections 5, 6, and 7 of the mentioned standard. To support the designing of ArchCaMo, a Systematic Mapping Study was performed for describing studies that explicitly used the ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011 standard, and identifying which parts of this standard were most considered in the literature. The ArchCaMo is useful to evaluate current architectures and analyze the rate of architecture debt. In addition, it is effective for organizations that are struggling with organizing, describing, and communicating the software architecture for multiple stakeholders. For each level of architecture maturity, the organization knows what to expect concerning activities and deliverables. Within this objective, three organizations are selected as case studies. The researchers conducted the survey by means of interviews with their software architect or the chief of the software architecture team. By analyzing the obtained results, the authors checked the compliance of their software architecture activities with ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011. As a result, all three organizations were classified on level 1, which means that these organizations fail in at least one aspect to formalize and define the software architecture.