This paper identifies a model of software evolution that is prevalent in large, long-lived academic research tool suites (3L-ARTS). This model results in an "archipelago" of related but haphazardly organized architectural "islands", and inherently induces technical debt. We illustrate the archipelago model with examples from two 3L-ARTS archipelagos identified in literature.
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@article{arxiv.2104.08432,
title = {Architectural Archipelagos: Technical Debt in Long-Lived Software Research Platforms},
author = {Marcelo Schmitt Laser and Duc Minh Le and Joshua Garcia and Nenad Medvidović},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.08432},
year = {2021}
}