Integrating Quality-Attribute Reasoning Frameworks in the ArchE Design Assistant

Diaz-Pace, Andres; Kim, Hyun Woo; Bass, Len; Bianco, Phil; Bachmann, Felix

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-87879-7_11

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“…To facilitate software architecture design, various methods have been proposed for choosing architectural solutions on the basis of their known (or assumed) effects on the quality attributes (e.g. (Matinlassi and Niemelä, 2002;Diaz-Pace et al, 2008;Kim et al, 2009)) and assessing informally the "goodness" of the architecture on the basis of a small set of prioritized test cases, scenarios (Clements et al, 2002). Still, in practice software architecture design is often based on unarticulated and even esthetic arguments.…”

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Synthesizing Architecture from Requirements: A Genetic Approach

Räihä

Kundi

Koskimies

et al. 2011

Relating Software Requirements and Architectures

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The generation of software architecture using genetic algorithms is studied with architectural styles and patterns as mutations. The main input for the genetic algorithm is a rudimentary architecture representing the functional decomposition of the system, obtained as a refinement of use cases. Using a fitness function tuned for desired weights of simplicity, efficiency and modifiability, the technique produces a proposal for the software architecture of the target system, with applications of architectural styles and patterns. The quality of the produced architectures is studied empirically by comparing these architectures with the ones produced by undergraduate students.

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Synthesizing Architecture from Requirements: A Genetic Approach

Räihä

Kundi

Koskimies

et al. 2011

Relating Software Requirements and Architectures

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“…P A 4 and P A 6 in this case). Different types of analysis can originate from these different views of the ranked list, however for sake of space in what follows we perform an analysis by columns on requirements R 5 and R 7 .…”

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“…Diaz Pace et al [7] have developed the ArchE framework. ArchE assists the software architect during the design to create architectures that meet quality requirements.…”

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A Process to Effectively Identify “Guilty” Performance Antipatterns

Cortellessa

Martens

Reussner

et al. 2010

Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering

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Abstract. The problem of interpreting the results of software performance analysis is very critical. Software developers expect feedbacks in terms of architectural design alternatives (e.g., split a software component in two components and re-deploy one of them), whereas the results of performance analysis are either pure numbers (e.g. mean values) or functions (e.g. probability distributions). Support to the interpretation of such results that helps to fill the gap between numbers/functions and software alternatives is still lacking. Performance antipatterns can play a key role in the search of performance problems and in the formulation of their solutions. In this paper we tackle the problem of identifying, among a set of detected performance antipatterns, the ones that are the real causes of problems (i.e. the "guilty" ones). To this goal we introduce a process to elaborate the performance analysis results and to score performance requirements, model entities and performance antipatterns. The cross observation of such scores allows to classify the level of guiltiness of each antipattern. An example modeled in Palladio is provided to demonstrate the validity of our approach by comparing the performance improvements obtained after removal of differently scored antipatterns.

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“…However, this involves that architects need to be familiar with formal specifications which are specific to quality models. Research tools are being developed to aid architects integrate their reasoning frameworks [7], but still reasoning frameworks have to be implemented, and tactics description and how they are applied has to be indicated by the architect. It has also been reported in [31] that some quality attributes do not have a reasoning framework.…”

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Exploring How the Attribute Driven Design Method Is Perceived

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Solís²

2014

Relating System Quality and Software Architecture

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Abstract.A method for designing software architecture based on achieving quality attributes is the Attribute Driven Design (ADD) method. This method has not been explored in terms of users' perception on its usefulness and easiness of use. Our goal is to study the perceptions that software engineers with no or little experience industrially in designing software architecture using the ADD. In this paper, we describe an empirical study that we conducted on master students to measure their perceptions of the ADD after using it. We performed two experiments; one with students enrolled in the Software Architecture module in 2010 and repeated it with the students of the same module in 2011. Our main findings are that the subjects perceive ADD method as useful, and that there is a relationship between its usefulness and willingness of use. However, the subjects' opinion was that they did not agree that the ADD method is easy to be used. We also discuss several problems that the subjects faced when using ADD.

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Integrating Quality-Attribute Reasoning Frameworks in the ArchE Design Assistant

Cited by 37 publications

References 9 publications

Synthesizing Architecture from Requirements: A Genetic Approach

Synthesizing Architecture from Requirements: A Genetic Approach

A Process to Effectively Identify “Guilty” Performance Antipatterns

Exploring How the Attribute Driven Design Method Is Perceived

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