Using repository data for driving software architecture

We are in the pursuit of establishing a method for continuous data driven software architecture. We describe the problem with current methods for measuring the impact of refactoring long lived systems at the architectural level and architecture compliance checking. We summarize our studies of code churn, productivity and an automatic tool for compliance checking. We conclude that architecture violations seem to play an important role, but current methods are infeasible for industry practice. Finally we propose to use repository data mining to improve current methods for architecture compliance checking.