A holistic architecture assessment method for software product lines

Olumofin, Femi; Mišić, Vojislav B.

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2006.05.003

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“…• Olumofin and Misic [52] introduce the "Holistic Product Line Architecture Assessment" (HooPLA) method extending ATAM for SPL evaluation and provide a qualitative analytical treatment of variation points using scenarios.…”

Section: Supplemental Methods and Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability evaluation of software architectures

Koziolek¹

2011

Proceedings of the Joint ACM SIGSOFT Conference -- QoSA and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium -- ISARCS on Quality of Software Architecture

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Long-living software systems are sustainable if they can be cost-efficiently maintained and evolved over their entire lifecycle. The quality of software architectures determines sustainability to a large extent. Scenario-based software architecture evaluation methods can support sustainability analysis, but they are still reluctantly used in practice. They are also not integrated with architecture-level metrics when evaluating implemented systems, which limits their capabilities. Existing literature reviews for architecture evaluation focus on scenario-based methods, but do not provide a critical reflection of the applicability of such methods for sustainability evaluation. Our goal is to measure the sustainability of a software architecture both during early design using scenarios and during evolution using scenarios and metrics, which is highly relevant in practice. We thus provide a systematic literature review assessing scenario-based methods for sustainability support and categorize more than 40 architecture-level metrics according to several design principles. Our review identifies a need for further empirical research, for the integration of existing methods, and for the more efficient use of formal architectural models.

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Section: Supplemental Methods and Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainability evaluation of software architectures

Koziolek¹

2011

Proceedings of the Joint ACM SIGSOFT Conference -- QoSA and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium -- ISARCS on Quality of Software Architecture

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“…Several approaches for the quality evaluation and analysis of SPL architectures have been proposed over the last few years (e.g., [23], [28], [19], [31]). Among them, Kim et al [23] and Olumofin and Misic [28] propose two extensions of ATAM (i.e., EATAM [23] and HoPLAA [28]) with which to assess the quality of both product line and product architectures.…”

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“…Among them, Kim et al [23] and Olumofin and Misic [28] propose two extensions of ATAM (i.e., EATAM [23] and HoPLAA [28]) with which to assess the quality of both product line and product architectures. Both methods extend ATAM with the qualitative analytical treatment of variation points..…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although several methods for architecture derivation and improvement in SPL development have been proposed over the last few years (e.g., [23], [28], [19], [31], [6], [8], [29]), there is still a need for approaches that model the impact between architectural design decisions and quality attributes and use this information to enhance the quality attribute levels of product architectures. We have addressed this problem, in previous works [17] [18] [20], by proposing an approach with which to ensure the desired quality attribute levels for a product by applying architectural transformations to a product architecture derived from a product line architecture using a multimodel.…”

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Defining and Validating a Multimodel Approach for Product Architecture Derivation and Improvement

González-Huerta

Insfrán

Abrahão

2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Software architectures are the key to achieving the non-functional requirements (NFRs) in any software project. In software product line (SPL) development, it is crucial to identify whether the NFRs for a specific product can be attained with the built-in architectural variation mechanisms of the product line architecture, or whether additional architectural transformations are required. This paper presents a multimodel approach for quality-driven product architecture derivation and improvement (QuaDAI). A controlled experiment is also presented with the objective of comparing the effectiveness, efficiency, perceived ease of use, intention to use and perceived usefulness with regard to participants using QuaDAI as opposed to the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM). The results show that QuaDAI is more efficient and perceived as easier to use than ATAM, from the perspective of novice software architecture evaluators. However, the other variables were not found to be statistically significant. Further replications are needed to obtain more conclusive results.

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“…In recent years, several methods and techniques for evaluating quality in SPLs have been proposed (e.g., QRF [41], ETAM [30], HoPLAA [43]). Unfortunately, despite the emergence of these methods and techniques, the state of industrial practice for quality in SPLs needs to be updated since, in some cases, even the basic measurement principles are unknown.…”

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A systematic review of quality attributes and measures for software product lines

2011

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It is widely accepted that software measures provide an appropriate mechanism for understanding, monitoring, controlling and predicting the quality of software development projects. In Software Product Lines (SPL), quality is even more important than in a single software product since, owing to systematic reuse, a fault or an inadequate design decision could be propagated to several products in the family. Over the last few years, a great number of quality attributes and measures for assessing the quality of SPL have been reported in literature. However, no studies summarizing the current knowledge about them exist. This paper presents a systematic literature review with the objective of identifying and interpreting all the available studies from 1996 to date that present quality attributes and/or measures for SPL. These attributes and measures have been classified using a set of criteria that includes the life cycle phase in which the measures are applied; the corresponding quality characteristics; their support for specific SPL characteristics (e.g., variability, compositionality); the procedure used to validate the measures, etc. We found 165 measures related to 98 different quality attributes. The results of the review indicated that 92% of the measures evaluate attributes that are related to maintainability. In addition, 67% of the measures are used during the design phase of Domain Engineering, and 56% are applied to evaluate the product line architecture. However, only 25% of them have been empirically validated.In conclusion, the results provide a global vision of the state of the research within this area in order to help researchers in detecting weaknesses, directing research efforts, and identifying new research lines. In particular, there is a need for new measures with which to evaluate both the quality of the artifacts produced during the entire SPL life cycle and other quality characteristics. There is also a need for more validation (both theoretical and empirical) of existing measures. In addition, our results may be useful as a reference guide for practitioners to assist them in the selection or the adaptation of existing measures for evaluating their software product lines.

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A holistic architecture assessment method for software product lines

Cited by 29 publications

References 30 publications

Sustainability evaluation of software architectures

Sustainability evaluation of software architectures

Defining and Validating a Multimodel Approach for Product Architecture Derivation and Improvement

A systematic review of quality attributes and measures for software product lines

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