Architecture-level modifiability analysis (ALMA)

Bengtsson, PerOlof; Lassing, N.H.; Bosch, Jan; Vliet, Hans van

doi:10.1016/s0164-1212(03)00080-3

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“…The principle objective of evaluating architecture is to assess the potential of the chosen architecture to deliver a system capable of fulfilling required quality requirements. A number of methods, such as Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method and Architecture-Level Maintainability Analysis (ALMA) (Bengtsson et al, 2004), have been developed to evaluate the quality related issues at the architecture level.…”

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Tradeoff and Sensitivity Analysis in Software Architecture Evaluation Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

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Abstract. Software architecture evaluation involves evaluating different architecture design alternatives against multiple quality-attributes. These attributes typically have intrinsic conflicts and must be considered simultaneously in order to reach a final design decision. AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process), an important decision making technique, has been leveraged to resolve such conflicts. AHP can help provide an overall ranking of design alternatives. However it lacks the capability to explicitly identify the exact tradeoffs being made and the relative size of these tradeoffs. Moreover, the ranking produced can be sensitive such that the smallest change in intermediate priority weights can alter the final order of design alternatives. In this paper, we propose several in-depth analysis techniques applicable to AHP to identify critical tradeoffs and sensitive points in the decision process. We apply our method to an example of a real-world distributed architecture presented in the literature. The results are promising in that they make important decision consequences explicit in terms of key design tradeoffs and the architecture's capability to handle future quality attribute changes. These expose critical decisions which are otherwise too subtle to be detected in standard AHP results.

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“…particular class of systems and focus on only one quality aspects. For instance, the ALMA method (ALMA) [Bengtsson04] restricts itself to the modifiability aspect of business information system. More precisely, the ALMA method provides only insight on future adaptation issues of specific information architectures and their related impact.…”

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“…The architecture-level modifiability analysis (ALMA) method from Bengtsson et al integrates a number of different scenario-based approaches for assessing architecture maintainability [18].…”

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Architecture-level modifiability analysis (ALMA)

Cited by 187 publications

References 15 publications

Tradeoff and Sensitivity Analysis in Software Architecture Evaluation Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

Tradeoff and Sensitivity Analysis in Software Architecture Evaluation Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

Towards an inter-domain billing system to support dynamic service provisioning

Evaluating an Embedded Software Reference Architecture — Industrial Experience Report —

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Architecture-level modifiability analysis (ALMA)

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Tradeoff and Sensitivity Analysis in Software Architecture Evaluation Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

Tradeoff and Sensitivity Analysis in Software Architecture Evaluation Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

Towards an inter-domain billing system to support dynamic service provisioning

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