Chapter 1

Making Software Architecture and Agile Approaches Work Together

Foundations and Approaches

Muhammad Ali Babar,    The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Abstract

Software architecture (SA) is one of the most significant areas of research and practice in software engineering. It has been shown that getting architecture of large-scale complex systems right is not only extremely important but hugely challenging. The increasing popularity and adoption of Agile Software Development (ASD) methods have brought architecture-centric methods and practices into question as agile followers tend to perceive architecture in the context of plan-driven software development. It is widely recognized that SA needs sufficient attention for ...

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