Evaluating an Embedded Software Reference Architecture &amp;#8212; Industrial Experience Report &amp;#8212;

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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“…In addition to the proposed extensions to scenario-based evaluation methods, there are several case study reports in literature [48,32,17].…”

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

106

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“…There are different methods to evaluate product-line architectures in the design phase: FAAM (Family Architecture Assessment Method) [17] to evaluate the information-system family's architectures, the QADA (Quality-driven Architecture Design and quality Analysis) approach [38] has two methods to analyse product-line architectures: The RAP (Reliability and Availability Prediction) method [26] to evaluate software reliability and availability of the architectural model and the IEE (Integrability and Extensibility Evaluation) method [44] for integrability and extensibility evaluation, REDA 1 (Reliability Evaluation of Domain Architectures) [2] to analyse the reliability of a PLA and D-SAAM (Distributed SAAM) [24], a variant of SAAM to evaluate reference architectures.…”

Section: Architecture Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quality aware software product line engineering

2008

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“…All case studies have been performed and most of the results have been published in international workshops, conferences, and journals [9,22,23,24,25].…”

Section: Results and Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…• An overview of the software engineering technologies used in embedded software industry [9] • An approach for the evaluation of product-line architectures [22].…”

Section: Results and Contributionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Model-Driven Evolution of Software Architectures

Graaf

2007

11th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR'07)

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This paper gives an overview of a Ph.D.-project that investigates approaches to support the evolution of software architectures. Particularly, we focus on the use of model-driven techniques in the context of software product-lines. We recognise four tasks related to software evolution: evaluation, conformance checking, migration, and documentation. We propose model-driven solutions for these tasks. By their application in industrial case studies we investigate the extent to which the evolution tasks can be automated, the impact of the use of software product lines, and the possibilities and difficulties to integrate these solutions in industrial practice.

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Sustainability evaluation of software architectures

Sustainability evaluation of software architectures

Quality aware software product line engineering

Model-Driven Evolution of Software Architectures

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