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An Initial Study on the Association Between Architectural Smells and Degradation

Author : Sebastian Herold

Published in: Software Architecture

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

It is generally assumed that architectural smells are associated with software architectural degradation. Treating smells could hence help treating degradation. This article investigates the association between three types of architectural smells and the existence of architecture-violating dependencies as manifestation of architectural degradation in software.
We gathered data about architectural smells and violations from a single system with a validated prescriptive architecture. The data was analysed to identify and characterise associations between architectural smells and violations. Statistically relevant associations were identified for two of three smells, namely cyclic dependencies and unstable dependencies. Effect sizes were small for both though.
These results provide evidence for cyclic and unstable dependencies having a larger risk of including architectural violations. The small effect sizes indicate that the presence of architectural smells cannot explain architectural degradation alone. This shows that complementing methods and techniques are required for exhaustive treatment of both phenomena.

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Metadata
Title
An Initial Study on the Association Between Architectural Smells and Degradation
Author
Sebastian Herold
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Software Architecture

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-58922-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-58923-3

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58923-3_13

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