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ArchCaMO - A Maturity Model for Software Architecture Description Based on ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011

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Academia and Industry have acknowledged that having a fully described software architecture is a crucial asset for software development and maintenance. The description of a software architecture is read by many stakeholders when developing and maintaining complex software systems which are composed by multiple elements, including software, systems, hardware and processes. 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. Therefore, it is not unusual that software architects have to deal with difficulties in terms of how to describe the architecture. This paper brings two main purposes: first is the idea of establishing levels of a maturity model for software architectures, which can help in organizing, describing and communicating the software architecture for multiple stakeholders, and, second, a way to evaluate how mature is the software architecture.

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This study was financed in part by the Fundação de Apoio a Pesquisa e Inovação Tecnológica do Estado de Sergipe.

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Júnior, A.A.C., Misra, S., Soares, M.S. (2019). ArchCaMO - A Maturity Model for Software Architecture Description Based on ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010:2011. In: Misra, S., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2019. ICCSA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11623. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24308-1_3

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