Agile Software Architecture
Aligning Agile Processes and Software Architectures

Coordinators: Babar Muhammad Ali, Brown Alan W., Mistrik Ivan

Language: English
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Agile software development approaches have had significant impact on industrial software development practices. Today, agile software development has penetrated to most IT companies across the globe, with an intention to increase quality, productivity, and profitability. Comprehensive knowledge is needed to understand the architectural challenges involved in adopting and using agile approaches and industrial practices to deal with the development of large, architecturally challenging systems in an agile way.

Agile Software Architecture focuses on gaps in the requirements of applying architecture-centric approaches and principles of agile software development and demystifies the agile architecture paradox. Readers will learn how agile and architectural cultures can co-exist and support each other according to the context. Moreover, this book will also provide useful leads for future research in architecture and agile to bridge such gaps by developing appropriate approaches that incorporate architecturally sound practices in agile methods.

Chapter 1: Introduction to ASA

ASA: The State-of-the-Art

ASA: Industrial/commercial perspective

ASA: Current Challenges and Future Directions

Part I: Fundamentals of Agile Architecting

Chapter 2: The DCI Paradigm: Beyond Class-Oriented Architecture to Object Orientation

Chapter 3: Refactoring software architecture

Chapter 4: Architecture Decisions: Who, How and When?

Part II: Managing Software Architecture in Agile Projects

Chapter 5: Combining agile development and variability handling to achieve adaptable software architectures

Chapter 6: Agile software architecture knowledge management

Chapter 7: Continuous software architecture analysis

Chapter 8: Bridging user stories and software architectures: a guidance support for agile architecting

Part III: Agile Architecting in Specific Domains

Chapter 9: Architecture-centric testing for security: An agile perspective

Chapter 10: Multi-tenancy multi-target architectures: Extending multi-tenancy architectures for agile deployment and development

Part IV: Industrial Viewpoints on Agile Architecting

Chapter 11: Bursting the Agile Bubble Anti-Pattern

Chapter 12: Building a Platform for Innovation: Architecture and Agile as Key Enablers

Chapter 13: Opportunities, threats and limitations of emergent architecture

Chapter 14: Aviva GI: Architecture as a Key Driver for Agile Success

researchers, practitioners, and graduate students of software engineering and software architectures, people working in architecturally sensitive industries (e.g. safety critical systems) and industries migrating to agile

Dr. M. Ali Babar is a Professor of Software Engineering (Chair) at the School of Computer Science, the University of Adelaide, Australia. He also holds an Associate Professorship at IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Prior to this, he was a Reader in Software Engineering at Lancaster University UK. Previously, he worked as a researcher and project leaders in different research centres in Ireland and Australia. He has authored/co-authored more than 140 peer-reviewed research papers in journals, conferences, and workshops. He has co-edited a book, software architecture knowledge management: theory and practice. Prof. Ali Babar has been a guest editor of several special issues/sections of IEEE Software, JSS, ESEJ, SoSyM, IST, and REJ. Apart from being on the program committees of several international conferences such as WICSA/ECSA, ESEM, SPLC, ICGSE, and ICSSP for several years, Prof. Ali Babar was the founding general chair of Nordic-Baltic Symposium on Cloud Computing and Internet Technologies (NordiCloud) 2012. He has also been co-(chair) of the program committees of several conferences such as NordiCloud 2013, WICSA/ECSA 2012, ECSA2010, PROFES2010, and ICGSE2011. He is a member of steering committees of WICSA, ECSA, NordiCloud and ICGSE. He has presented tutorials in the areas of cloud computing, software architecture and empirical approaches at various international conferences. Prior to joining R&D field, he worked as a software engineer and an IT consultant for several years in Australia. He obtained a PhD in computer science and engineering from University of New South Wales, Australia.
Alan W. Brown is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, UK. where he leads activities in the area of corporate entrepreneurship and open innovation models. In addition to teaching activities, he focuses on innovation in a number of practical research areas with regard to global enterprise software delivery, agile
  • Presents a consolidated view of the state-of-art and state-of-practice as well as the newest research findings
  • Identifies gaps in the requirements of applying architecture-centric approaches and principles of agile software development and demystifies the agile architecture paradox
  • Explains whether or not and how agile and architectural cultures can co-exist and support each other depending upon the context
  • Provides useful leads for future research in both architecture and agile to bridge such gaps by developing appropriate approaches, which incorporate architecturally sound practices in agile methods