Architecting activities evolution and emergence in agile software development: An empirical investigation initial research proposal

Abstract

This proposal is design to address the proposed research work on agile software development and architecture co-existence. The objective of this research is to answer how architecting activities emerge and evolve with agile software development in industry. The architecting activities are architectural analysis (AA), architectural synthesis (AS), architectural evaluation (AE), architectural implementation (AI), architectural maintenance and evolution (AME), architectural recovery (AR), architectural description (ADp), architectural understanding (AU), architectural impact analysis (AIA), architectural reuse (ARu) and architectural refactoring (ARf). This research objective could achieve by using multiple research methods. We are planning to use comprehensively report the pure ‘state- of- practice’ for architecting activities in ASD from industry and practitioners point of views. Therefore, we decided to use the case studies, survey and semi structure interview as research methods. The result of this research work can provide the baseline information for architecture evolution frameworks for agile software development, challenges and solutions in ASD for SA activities, expected evolvable dimensions of the software system, methods that may help for minimizing the architectural and agile co-existence issues and architectural technical debt in agile software development.