Architectural mismatch or why it's hard to build systems out of existing parts

Garlan, D., Allen, R., & Ockerbloom, J. (1995). Architectural mismatch or why it's hard to build systems out of existing parts. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 179-185.

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Conference paper

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Primary research

Year

1995

Pages

179-185

DOI

10.1145/225014.225031

DOI registrant

Association for Computing Machinery

Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/225014.225031

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engineering_design

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• Compatibility
  • A chemical engineer reasoning about alloy compatibility (which metals form brittle phases when mixed) can recognize the parallel to team dynamics (which personality types create friction)—a transfer Garlan, Allen, and Ockerbloom (1995) anchor in their seminal analysis of architectural mismatch, where the same constraint-violation logic explains why building systems out of existing parts is hard across very different substrates.

    This sourceFoundational analysis of architectural mismatch: identifies how assumptions made by independently developed components produce incompatibilities at the architectural level, with structural lessons that transfer broadly across engineering substrates.

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