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Characterising Software Platforms from an Architectural Perspective

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Software Architecture (ECSA 2013)

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With demands of speed in software development it is of interest to build on available software platforms that incorporate the necessary non-competitive functionalities and focus the development effort on adding features to a competitive product. This paper proposes that we move from an API-oriented focus and instead suggest four architectural concerns for describing software platforms as more relevant.

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  1. Volvo Car Group, Sweden

    Ulrik Eklund

  2. Malmö University, Sweden

    Ulrik Eklund, Carl Magnus Olsson & Marcus Ljungblad

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  1. LAAS, University of Toulouse, 31400, Toulouse, France

    Khalil Drira

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Eklund, U., Olsson, C.M., Ljungblad, M. (2013). Characterising Software Platforms from an Architectural Perspective. In: Drira, K. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7957. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39031-9_35

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