Software Architecture

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2024, held in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, during September 2-6, 2024.

The 14 full research papers, 3 experience report papers, 7 short papers and 3 industry papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions

They were organized in topical sections as follows: Architecture modeling and design; Architecture evaluation; Microservices architecture; Sustainability; Trustworthiness; Architecture decision making; and Architecture documentation.

. - Architecture modeling and design.
. - Integrating Data Quality in Industrial Big Data Architectures: an Action Design Research Study.
. - Case Study: Applying optimization tools to microservice environments that scale safely at Ancestry. com and the Learnings.
. - The Nature of Questions that Arise During Software Architecture.
. - Automated Architecture Recovery for Embedded Software Systems: An Industrial Case Study.
. - An Analysis of MLOps Architectures: A Systematic Mapping Study.
. - Attention-based Method for Design Pattern Detection.
. - Architecture evaluation.
. - Cause-Effect Chain-Based Diagnosis of Automotive Onboard Energy Systems.
. - Architecture-based Issue Propagation Analysis.
. - MDEPT: Microservices Design Evaluator and Performance Tester.
. - Microservices architecture.
. - Exploring Architectural Evolution in Microservice Systems using Repository Mining Techniques and Static Code Analysis.
. - Temporal Community Detection in Developer Collaboration Networks of Microservice Projects.
. - Uncertainty Calculation-as-a-Service: Microservice-Based Metrology Applications.
. - Performance Impact of Microservice Granularity Decisions: An Empirical Evaluation Using the Service Weaver Framework.
. - Improving Comprehensibility of Event-Driven Microservice Architectures by Graph-Based Visualizations.
. - Sustainability.
. - Energy Consumption of IoT Monitoring Software Architectures in the Edge.
. - Software Architecture Assessment for Sustainability: A Case Study.
. - Trustworthiness.
. - Modeling and Analyzing Zero Trust Architectures Regarding Performance and Security.
. - Towards Secure Management of Edge-Cloud IoT Microservices using Policy as Code.
. - Electric Vehicle Fast-Charging Software: Architectural Considerations Towards Trustworthiness.
. - Architecture decision making.
. - Exploring Architectural Design Decisions in Mailing Lists and their Traceability to Issue Trackers.
. - Helping novice architects to make quality design decisions using an LLM-based assistant.
. - Introducing Architecture Decision Records in Practice: An Action Research Study.
. - Towards Teamwise Informed Decisions On Microservice Security Smells.
. - Automated Quality Concerns Extraction from User Stories and Acceptance Criteria for Early Architectural Decisions.
. - Architecture documentation.
. - SCATS Framework for Software Integration in Software-Defined Vehicle with Cross-Organizational Agile Teams.
. - The Execution Perspective in Software Architecture Descriptions: A Systematic Mapping.
. - Architectural Views: The State of Practice in Open-Source Software Projects.