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How Changes Are Reflected in a Software Architecture

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Busse, Dave
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This paper briefly explores what happens to a Software Architecture during maintenance. Or more specifically, when changes are made to an existing system that have a system wide impact, are these changes always reflected in the Software Architecture? An existing student system is presented with its software architecture. Changes to this system are described along with their effects to the architecture. It is shown that some changes that should be reflected in the architectural model are not present. An alternate model for the software architecture that seems to address this problem, is discussed.
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1995
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