Warnings:Violation symptoms indicating architecture erosion

Abstract

As a software system evolves, its architecture tends to degrade, and gradually impedes software maintenance and evolution activities and negatively impacts the quality attributes of the system. The main root cause behind architecture erosion phenomenon derives from violation symptoms (i.e., various architecturally-relevant violations, such as violations of architecture pattern). Previous studies focus on detecting violations in software systems using architecture conformance checking approaches. However, code review comments are also rich sources that may contain extensive discussions regarding architecture violations, while there is a limited understanding of violation symptoms from the viewpoint of developers