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Browsing LERO - The Irish Software Research Centre by Author "Ali Babar, Muhammad"

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Architecture knowledge management: challenges, approaches, and tools

Ali Babar, Muhammad; Gorton, Ian (IEEE Computer Society, 2007)

Capturing the technical knowledge, contextual information, and rationale surrounding the design decisions underpinning system architectures can greatly improve the software development process. If not managed, this critical ...
Assessment of a framework for comparing software architecture analysis methods

Ali Babar, Muhammad; Kitchenham, Barbara (2007)

We have developed a framework, FOCSAAM, for comparing software architecture analysis methods. FOCSAAM can help architects and managers to choose a specific method to support architecture analysis process. We have been ...
Assessment of a framework for designing and evaluating security sensitive architecture

Ali Babar, Muhammad (2008)

Background: We have developed an Architectural Level Security Analysis Framework (ALSAF), which can be used to consider and address security related issues at software architecture level. Goal: Our goal was to empirically ...
An automated tool for generating UML models from natural language requirements

Deeptimahanti, Deva Kumar; Ali Babar, Muhammad (IEEE Computer Society, 2009)

This paper describes a domain independent tool, named, UML Model Generator from Analysis of Requirements (UMGAR), which generates UML models like the Use-case Diagram, Analysis class model, Collaboration diagram and Design ...
Challenges in using open source software in product development: a review of the literature

Stol, Klaas-Jan; Ali Babar, Muhammad (Association for Computing Machinery, 2010)

Component-Based Software Development has become a popular approach to building software intensive systems. Besides using Commercial Off-The-Shelf components, an organization may choose to use Open Source Software ...
A comparative study of architecture knowledge management tools

Tang, Antony; Avgeriou, Paris; Jansen, Anton; Capilla, Rafael; Ali Babar, Muhammad (Elsevier, 2009)

Recent research suggests that architectural knowledge, such as design decisions, is important and should be recorded alongside the architecture description. Different approaches have emerged to support such architectural ...
A comparative study of challenges in integrating open source software and inner source software

Stol, Klaas-Jan; Ali Babar, Muhammad; Avgeriou, Paris; Fitzgerald, Brian (Elsevier, 2011)

Context: Several large software-developing organizations have adopted Open Source Software development (OSSD) practices to develop in-house components that are subsequently integrated into products. This phenomenon is ...
A comparative survey of economic models for software product lines

Ali, Muhammad Sarmad; Ali Babar, Muhammad; Schmid, Klaus (IEEE Computer Society, 2009)

Software product line engineering aims at achieving systematic reuse by exploiting commonalities among related products in order to reduce cost and time-tomarket. Before adopting this approach, organizations are likely ...
A comparison framework for open source software evaluation methods

Stol, Klaas-Jan; Ali Babar, Muhammad (Springer-Verlag, 2010)

The use of Open Source Software (OSS) components has become a viable alternative to Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components in product development. Since the quality of OSS products varies widely, both industry and the ...
Comparison of scenario-based software architecture evaluation methods

Ali Babar, Muhammad; Gorton, Ian (IEEE Computer Society, 2004)

Software engineering community has proposed several methods to evaluate software architectures with respect to desired quality attributes such as maintainability, performance, and so on. There is, however, little effort ...
Design and evaluation of a process for identifying architecture patterns in open source software

Stol, Klaas-Jan; Avgeriou, Paris; Ali Babar, Muhammad (Springer-Verlag, 2011)

Architecture patterns have a direct effect (positive or negative) on a system’s quality attributes (e.g., performance). Therefore, information about patterns used in a product can provide valuable insights to, e.g., component ...
Design requirements for an architecture consistency tool

Rosik, Jacek; Buckley, Jim; Ali Babar, Muhammad (2009)

Software architecture and its related documentation are acknowledged as some of the most important artefacts created during system design. However, often the implemented system diverges, over time, from the designed ...
Developing a course on designing software in globally distributed teams.

Lago, Patricia; Muccini, Henry; Ali Babar, Muhammad (IEEE Computer Society, 2008)

Present-day software engineering combines technical and social skills, as well as collaboration among people with different backgrounds (e.g. due to global development and outsourcing). In this paper we address the problem ...
Distilling scenarios from patterns for software architecture evaluation

Zhu, Liming; Ali Babar, Muhammad (IEEE Computer Society, 2004)

Software architecture (SA) evaluation is a quality assurance technique that is increasingly attracting significant research and commercial interests. A number of SA evaluation methods have been developed. Most of these ...
Dynamic software product line architectures using service based computing for automotive systems

Shokry, Hesham; Ali Babar, Muhammad (2008)

Our research is aimed at applying the notion of dynamic runtime variability of software product lines in the embedded automotive software systems to create adaptable and reconfigurable software architectures. We argue that ...
Evaluating the usefulness and ease of use of a groupware tool for the software architecture evaluation process

Ali Babar, Muhammad; Winkler, Dietmar; Biffl, Stefan (IEEE Computer Society, 2007)

We have developed a framework for groupware tool support for the software architecture evaluation process in the context of global software development. We have empirically assessed the effectiveness of the groupwares ...
An experience of applying architecture-based approach to build a component-based requirements management toolset

Ali Babar, Muhammad (IEEE Computer Society, 2004)

It has been advocated and shown that software architecture can be an effective tool to reduce development cost and increase the quality of the end product [1]. Rigorous efforts invested in architectural design and evaluation ...
An exploratory study of architectural practices and challenges in using agile software development approaches

Ali Babar, Muhammad (IEEE Computer Society, 2009)

Agile software development approaches have recently gained popularity as a mechanism for reducing cost and increasing ability to handle change in dynamic market conditions. However, there is also a significant concern about ...
A framework for supporting the software architecture evaluation process in global software development

Ali Babar, Muhammad (IEEE Computer Society, 2009)

Software Architecture (SA) evaluation process requires a large number of stakeholders to be collocated for evaluation sessions. Given the increasing trend of using globally distributed software development teams, organizations ...
How does agility ensure quality?

Huo, Ming; Verner, June; Ali Babar, Muhammad; Zhu, Liming (2004)

Software quality is one of our most important software concerns. Agile methods may produce software faster but we also need to know how they meet our quality requirements. In this paper we compare the waterfall model ...

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