Section: New Results

Empirical software modeling

A new line started this year was the evaluation of how software modeling techniques (and in general software engineering methods) are used in practice. As the first area of study, we have focused on how software architects deal with non-functional requirements. Based on a set of interviews with software architects, we have analyzed whether all the languages, patterns and methodologies proposed by researchers have had any impact on the way software architect choose the best architecture for a given system. Results of the study can be read in these publications [18] [11] .