{"id":1679,"date":"2026-10-06T19:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cs.ubbcluj.ro\/~meco\/a-systematic-mapping-study-method-for-software-architecture-research-with-llm-assisted-quality-assessment-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T19:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T19:10:52","slug":"a-systematic-mapping-study-method-for-software-architecture-research-with-llm-assisted-quality-assessment-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cs.ubbcluj.ro\/~meco\/a-systematic-mapping-study-method-for-software-architecture-research-with-llm-assisted-quality-assessment-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"A systematic mapping study method for software architecture research with LLM-assisted quality assessment (2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>MethodsX<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<p>Andrei Olar, Oskar Picus, L. Cernau, Laura Dio\u0219an, Simona Motogna<\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>This article describes the protocol used to conduct a systematic mapping study (SMS) of software architecture. The presence of architectural and design instruction in primary studies cannot be determined through search and superficial review alone. A principled quality assessment must be conducted to identify studies that are both relevant and of high quality. LLM assistance offers practical means of performing such assessments in a timely and efficient manner. Therefore, our contribution is threefold: \u2022 Guidance for the following SMS steps: tooling setup, database search, deduplication and snowballing, primary study selection, quality assessment, and data extraction. \u2022 The rationale and methodology to perform quality assessment on primary studies regarding software architecture. \u2022 A method of using large language models (LLMs) together with human evaluators is presented. The method is supported by bespoke open-source software.<\/p>\n<h2>Citation<\/h2>\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">@Inproceedings{Olar2026ASM,\n author = {Andrei Olar and Oskar Picus and L. Cernau and Laura Dio\u0219an and Simona Motogna},\n booktitle = {MethodsX},\n title = {A systematic mapping study method for software architecture research with LLM-assisted quality assessment},\n year = {2026}\n}<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MethodsX Authors Andrei Olar, Oskar Picus, L. Cernau, Laura Dio\u0219an, Simona Motogna Abstract This article describes the protocol used to conduct a systematic mapping study (SMS) of software architecture. The presence of architectural and design instruction in primary studies cannot be determined through search and superficial review alone. A principled quality assessment must be conducted&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[71,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ubbcluj.ro\/~meco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ubbcluj.ro\/~meco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ubbcluj.ro\/~meco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ubbcluj.ro\/~meco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ubbcluj.ro\/~meco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ubbcluj.ro\/~meco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ubbcluj.ro\/~meco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ubbcluj.ro\/~meco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ubbcluj.ro\/~meco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ubbcluj.ro\/~meco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cs.ubbcluj.ro\/~meco\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}