SAEroCon 2014 - First Workshop on Software Architecture Erosion and Architectural Consistency (SAEroCon)

The more complex a software system is and the longer a software system evolves, the more difficult it is to avoid effects like software architecture erosion or architectural drifts. These effects can lead to systems where the realization of the system diverges from the intended architecture with resultant negative impacts on quality attributes associated with the intended architecture. As studies have shown, untreated divergence can lead to systems which are impossible to maintain in the long run. Expensive redevelopments and replacements are the consequences.
In recent years, researchers from different communities like software maintenance, model-driven development, and software architecture have investigated many aspects of software architecture erosion from different perspectives. SAEroCon targets these researchers and software engineering practitioners interested in the current state-of-the-art/the state-of-the-practice and future directions regarding architecture consistency, architecture recovery and restoration and ways to prevent and mitigate against architecture erosion.
SAEroCon is co-located with the 11th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA), the premier gathering of software architecture practitioners and researchers.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Sydney!