Service-based architectures implement business processes as technical software services to develop enterprise
software. As a consequence of frequent business and technical change cycles, the architect requires a reusecentered approach to systematically accommodate recurring changes in existing software. Our ‘Pat-Evol’
project aims at supporting pattern-driven reuse in architecture-centric evolution for service software. We
propose architecture change mining as a complementary phase to a systematic architecture change execution.
Therefore, we investigate the ‘history’ of sequential changes - exploiting change logs - to discover patterns of
change that occur during evolution. To foster reuse, a pattern catalogue maintains an updated collection with
once-off specification for identified pattern instances. This allows us to exploit change pattern as a generic,
first class abstractions (that can be operationalised and parameterised) to support reuse in architecture-centric
software evolution. The notion of ‘build-once, use-often’ empowers the role of an architect to model and
execute generic and potentially reusable solution to recurring architecture evolution problems.
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Item Type:
Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:
Conference
Refereed:
Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:
Software Evolution; Change Patterns; Architecture Model Evolution