Blog Posts
The OSATE Slicer: Fast Reachability Query Support for Architectural Models
Our post introduces the OSATE Slicer, a new extension to the Open Source AADL Tool Environment that adapts a concept called slicing to architectural models of embedded, critical systems.
• By Sam Procter
In Software Architecture
How to Use Docker and NS-3 to Create Realistic Network Simulations
This post provides a tutorial with code samples on using Docker and NS-3 to Create Realistic Network Simulations.
• By Alejandro Gomez
In Software Architecture
Software Isolation: Why It Matters to Software Evolution and Why Everybody Puts It Off
This SEI Blog post discusses the practice of software isolation, which is one of the steps in large-scale refactoring efforts that most software development organizations go through.
• By Mario Benitez Preciado
In Software Architecture
Experiences Documenting and Remediating Enterprise Technical Debt
This SEI Blog post provides examples of enterprise technical debt and the risk it represents taken from real-world projects.
• By Stephany Bellomo
In Software Architecture
What Is Enterprise Technical Debt?
This post provides examples of enterprise technical debt, and the risk it represents, taken from real-world projects on which SEI researchers served as architecture evaluators.
• By Stephany Bellomo
In Software Architecture
Modeling Capabilities with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
This post examines the role of capabilities in systems engineering—their purpose, how they are modeled and analyzed using MBSE and SysML, and how they can be associated with business requirements.
• By Nataliya Shevchenko
In Software Architecture
Tactics and Patterns for Software Robustness
Robustness, along with other quality attributes, such as security and safety, is a key contributor to our trust that a system will perform in a reliable manner.
• By Rick Kazman
In Software Architecture
A Model-Based Tool to Assist in the Design of Safety-Critical Systems
The design of critical systems—those used in aircraft, medical devices, etc.—is becoming increasingly challenging as they increase in sophistication and complexity.
• By Sam Procter
In Software Architecture
Two Categories of Architecture Patterns for Deployability
This post, excerpted from the fourth edition of Software Architecture in Practice, discusses deployability and describes two categories of associated architecture patterns.
• By Rick Kazman
In Software Architecture
Six Acquisition Pathways for Large-Scale, Complex Systems
How to map technical reference frameworks (TRFs) to the pathways that compose the DoD’s Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF)
• By Douglas Schmidt (Vanderbilt University), Nickolas Guertin
In Software Architecture
