Dr Carola Lilienthal

Carola Lilienthal studied computer science at the University of Hamburg from 1988 to 1995 and obtained her doctorate in computer science under Christiane Floyd and Claus Lewerentz at the University of Hamburg in 2008.

Dr Carola Lilienthal is Managing Director of WPS - Workplace Solutions GmbH, where she is responsible for software architecture. Since 2003, Dr Carola Lilienthal has been analysing architectures in Java, C#, C++, ABAP and PHP throughout Germany and advising development teams on how they can improve the longevity of their software systems. In 2015, she summarised her experience from over a hundred analyses in the book "Langlebige Softwarearchitekturen".

The education of software architects is particularly close to her heart, which is why she is an active member of iSAQB, the International Software Architecture Quality Board e.V., and regularly shares her knowledge at conferences, in articles and at training courses.

carola.lilienthal@wps.de

Publications

Long-lasting software architectures: Analysing, limiting and reducing technical debt
Carola Lilienthal - dpunkt.verlag GmbH, 15 April 2024 (4th revised and expanded edition)
Domain-Driven Transformation: Making monoliths and microservices fit for the future
Carola Lilienthal - dpunkt.verlag GmbH, 31 August 2023
Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture
Carola Lilienthal - O'Reilly Media, 18 May 2022
Long-Lasting Software Architectures: Analysing, Limiting and Reducing Technical Debt
Carola Lilienthal - dpunkt.verlag GmbH, 12 December 2019 (3rd edition)
Sustainable Software Architecture - Analyse, limit and reduce technical debt
Carola Lilienthal - dpunkt.verlag GmbH, 02 September 2019
Sustainable Software Architectures: Analyse, limit and reduce technical debt
Carola Lilienthal - dpunkt.verlag GmbH, 17 July 2017 (2nd edition)
Long-lived software architectures: Analysing, limiting and reducing technical debt
Carola Lilienthal - dpunkt.verlag GmbH, 17 December 2015 (1st edition)
A Cognitive Model for Software Architecture Complexity
Eric Bouwers, Carola Lilienthal, Joost Visser, Arie van Deursen - In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2010) , Braga, Portugal, 30 June - 2 July, 2010
Architectural Complexity of Large-Scale Software Systems
Carola Lilienthal - European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2009) 2009, Kaiserslautern, Germany, IEEE Computer Society (Eds. R. Ferenc, J. Knodel, A. Winter), pp. 17-26, 2009
Complexity of software architectures, styles and strategies
Carola Lilienthal - Dissertation at the University of Hamburg, 2008
External Validation of a Metrics-Based Quality Assessment of the JWAM Framework
Holger Breitling, C. Lewerentz, Carola Lilienthal, M. Lippert, F. Simon, F. Steinbrückner - Software Measurement and Evaluation. by Rainer Dumke (ed.), Dieter Rombach (ed.), Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, 2002
Domain-driven framework layering in large systems
D. Bäumer, Guido Gryczan, R. Knoll, Carola Lilienthal, D. Riehle, Heinz Züllighoven - ACM Comput. Surv. 32(1es): 5 (2000)
The JWAM Framework: Inspired By Research, Reality-Tested By Commercial Utilisation
Holger Breitling, Carola Lilienthal, M. Lippert, Heinz Züllighoven - Proceedings of OOPSLA 2000 Workshop: Methods and Tools for Object-Oriented Framework Development and Specialisation, 2000
Structuring Large Application Frameworks
D. Bäumer, Guido Gryczan, R. Knoll, Carola Lilienthal, D. Riehle, Heinz Züllighoven - Building Application Frameworks - Object-Oriented Foundations of Framework Design (Eds. Mohamed E. Fayad, Douglas C. Schmidt, Ralph E. Johnson), Wiley Computer Publishing, New York. S. 395-413., 1999
Application-Oriented Usage Quality. The Tools and Materials Approach
Carola Lilienthal, Heinz Züllighoven - Interactions Magazine, CACM, October 1997, 1997
Framework Development for Large Systems
D. Bäumer, Guido Gryczan, R. Knoll, Carola Lilienthal, D. Riehle, Heinz Züllighoven - Commun. ACM 40(10): 52-59 (1997)

Dr Carola Lilienthal

Videos & Podcasts

Tackling Technical Debt with Patterns and Domain Knowledge

Domain Pattern - How the Domain Influences the Architecture

Sustainable Software Architecture and Domain-Driven Transformation

Software architecture - evaluation with the Modularity Maturity Index (MMI)

Domain-Driven Design for Product Owners

People as a measure: user-centred control station development

Publications