3.6SEApr 17, 2021
Architectural Archipelagos: Technical Debt in Long-Lived Software Research PlatformsMarcelo Schmitt Laser, Duc Minh Le, Joshua Garcia et al.
This paper identifies a model of software evolution that is prevalent in large, long-lived academic research tool suites (3L-ARTS). This model results in an "archipelago" of related but haphazardly organized architectural "islands", and inherently induces technical debt. We illustrate the archipelago model with examples from two 3L-ARTS archipelagos identified in literature.