Application of the SEPA methodology and tool suite to the National Cancer Institute

Sofrware architectures have received considerable attention in both research and practice for representing system stakeholder concerns, and many researchers have leveraged objectoriented models and methods for sofiare architecture representation and evaluation. While the benefits associated with object-oriented approaches are closely aligned with desirable qualities for sofrware architectures (e.g., reusability, extensibility, comprehensibility, performance), these beneJits are only realized through rational decision-making by the analyst when identihing object-oriented classes from a requirements specification. Traditionally, the class identification process has been somewhat subjective, with dvferent analysts often arriving at completely different class models from the same requirements specijkation. Since this subjectivity does not lend itself to automation, little tool support is available for identgfying object-oriented classes and their relationships. This paper describes a tool under development, Reference Architecture Representation Environment (RARE,), designed to systematically guide the analyst through class identification by applying heuristics associated with quality attributes and evaluating the resulting architecture based on relevant static metrics. RARE helps address a number of challenges typically faced during the class identification process, including (I) developing an architecture that reflects the quality attributes prioritized by the analyst, (2) managing inherent conflicts between selected attributes, and (3) capturing analyst expertise and rationale for use by others.

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Hybrid domain representation archive (HyDRA) for requirements model synthesis across viewpoints (poster session)

Barber

Jernigan

2000

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering - ICSE '00

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Application of the SEPA methodology and tool suite to the National Cancer Institute

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Tool support for systematic class identification in object-oriented software architectures

Hybrid domain representation archive (HyDRA) for requirements model synthesis across viewpoints (poster session)

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