Software Engineering Institute

Presentations and official proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Software Architecture Metrics (SAM 2015), held at the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering on May 16-24 in Florence, Italy.

Sessions and presentations included:

• A Metric-Based Approach to Managing Architecture-Related Impediments in Product Development Flow: An Industry Case Study from Cisco, Ken Power and Kieran Conboy
• An Analysis of Techniques and Methods for Technical Debt Management: A Reflection from the Architecture, Carlos Fernandez-Sanchez, Juan Garbajosa, Carlos Vidal, and Agustin Yague
• Architecture-Based Quality Attribute Synergies and Conflicts, Barry Boehm
• Comparing the Applicability of Complexity Measurements for Simulink Models During Integration, Jan Schröder, Christian Berger, Thomas Herpel, and Miroslaw Staron
• Evolution of Object-Oriented Coupling Metrics: A Sampling of 25 Years of Research, Ana Nicolaesc, Horst Lichter, and Yi Xu
• Exploring the Stability of Software with Time-Series Cross-Sectional Data, Jukka Ruohonen, Sami Hyrynsalmi, and Ville Leppänen
• Metrics for Architectural Synthesis and Evaluation: Use Cases and Compilation by Viewpoint, Olaf Zimmermann
• Toward Assessing Software Architecture Quality by Exploiting Code Smell Relations, Francesca Arcelli Fontana, Vincenzo Ferme, and Marco Zanoni
• Using Metric Time Lines for Identifying Architecture Shortcomings in Process Execution Architectures, Daniel Lübke