Confluent Factors, Complexity and Resultant Architectures in Modern Software EngineeringA Case of Service Cloud Applications

Abstract

There is a wealth of evidence that contemporary landscape of software development has been resisting the disciplined, rigorous, formally managed, architecture-driven, forward-engineering practices. The whole field of traditional software engineering needs a re-definition alongside the practices widely used in production of modern software systems, in particular service-oriented cloud-based applications. This paper argues that contemporary software engineering must re-focus and redefine its theoretical foundations and base it on acknowledgment that quality software and systems can (and by and large should) be constructed using principles of resultant architectures and roundtrip engineering.