@inbook{cab67f307e4348eb9dc8be97cfeac88b,
title = "The importance of architectural knowledge in integrating open source software",
abstract = "Open Source Software (OSS) is increasingly used in Component- Based Software Development (CBSD) of large software systems. An important issue in CBSD is selection of suitable components. Various OSS selection methods have been proposed, but most of them do not consider the software architecture aspects of OSS products. The Software Architecture (SA) research community refers to a product{\textquoteright}s architectural information, such as design decisions and underlying rationale, and used architecture patterns, as Architecture Knowledge (AK). In order to investigate the importance of AK of OSS components in integration, we conducted an exploratory empirical study. Based on in-depth interviews with 12 IT professionals, this paper presents insights into the following questions: 1) what AK of OSS is needed? 2) Why is AK of OSS needed? 3) Is AK of OSS generally available? And 4) what is the relative importance of AK? Based on these new insights, we provide a research agenda to further the research field of software architecture in OSS.",
keywords = "Architectural knowledge, Component-based development, Open source software integration, OSS integrator, Software architecture, Survey",
author = "Stol, \{Klaas Jan\} and Babar, \{Muhammad Ali\} and Paris Avgeriou",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2011.; 7th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference on Open Source Systems: Grounding Research, OSS 2011 ; Conference date: 06-10-2011 Through 07-10-2011",
year = "2011",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-24418-6\_10",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783642244179",
series = "IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology",
publisher = "Springer New York LLC",
pages = "142--158",
editor = "Hissam, \{Scott A.\} and Barbara Russo and \{de Mendon{\c c}a Neto\}, \{Manoel G.\} and Fabio Kon",
booktitle = "Open Source Systems",
}