Identifying Architectural Bad Smells

Author

Garcia, Joshua ; Popescu, Daniel ; Edwards, George ; Medvidovic, Nenad

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

fYear

2009

fDate

24-27 March 2009

Firstpage

255

Lastpage

258

Abstract

Certain design fragments in software architectures can have a negative impact on system maintainability. In this paper, we introduce the concept of architectural "bad smells," which are frequently recurring software designs that can have non-obvious and significant detrimental effects on system lifecycle properties. We define architectural smells and differentiate them from related concepts, such as architectural antipatterns and code smells. We also describe four representative architectural smells we encountered in the context of reverse-engineering eighteen grid technologies and refactoring one large industrial system.

Keywords

grid computing; reverse engineering; software architecture; software maintenance; architectural bad smell identification; design fragments; grid technologies; industrial system refactoring; reverse engineering; software architectures; system lifecycle properties; system maintainability; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer industry; Computer science; Design engineering; Software architecture; Software design; Software maintenance; Software systems; Technology management; Architectural Bad Smells; Architectural Refactoring; Software Architecture; Software Maintenance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2009. CSMR '09. 13th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Kaiserslautern

ISSN

1534-5351

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3589-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSMR.2009.59

Filename

4812762