Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGSOFT conference on Quality of Software Architectures

Abstract

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 8th International ACM Sigsoft Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures -- QoSA'12. For almost a decade, QoSA aims at advancing the state of the art in the quality assessment and management for software architectures. Specific issues of interest are defining quality measures, evaluating and managing architecture quality, linking architecture to requirements and implementation, and preserving architecture quality throughout the lifetime of the system. Past themes for QoSA include Quality throughout the Software Lifecycle (2011), Research into Practice -- Reality and Gaps (2010), Architectures for Adaptive Software Systems (2009), and Models and Architecture (2008). The umbrella theme of QoSA 2012 is Evolving Architectures. The QoSA'12 call for papers attracted 52 abstracts leading to the final number of 44 submissions from Europe, North and South America, Australia, Asia, and Africa. The program committee accepted 11 long papers and 7 short papers that cover a variety of topics related to the quality of software architectures. In addition, the program includes two keynote speeches, first by Alberto Montresor (University of Trento, Italy) on Designing Extreme Distributed Systems: Challenges and Opportunities, and second by Johan Bendz (Convenor of the ISO/IEC-JTC1-SC7 Working Group on Architecture) on International Standards Supporting Quality in Software Architecture. QoSA is part of the federated event CompArch, this year together with "CBSE 2012: 15th International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Component Based Software Engineering," "ISARCS 2012: 3rd International ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Architecting Critical Systems," "WCOP 2012: 17th International Doctoral Symposium on Components and Architecture," and "ROSS 2012: Workshop on Reusing Open-Source Components." We are grateful to the organizers of all these events for making CompArch a successful federated event on Component-based Software Engineering and Software Architecture.