A systematic mapping study method for software architecture research with LLM-assisted quality assessment
Andrei Olar, Oskar Picus, Laura Cernău, Laura Dioșan, Simona Motogna · 2026
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Description
Andrei Olar and colleagues described a mapping method for software research in two thousand twenty-six. Systematic maps survey whole research fields. Software architecture studies need principled quality checks. Surface reading cannot judge depth of instruction. Language models can speed those assessments up. Humans stay in the loop alongside them.
Guidance covers searching, deduplication, and snowballing steps. Study selection and data extraction are included too. Quality assessment gets its own rationale and method. Custom open-source software supports the workflow. The contribution is a protocol, not results. Other teams can now run comparable mapping studies. AI assistance enters literature review with guardrails.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Andrei Olar, Oskar Picus, Laura Cernău, Laura Dioșan, Simona Motogna |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 82 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |