Reviewing Product Line Architectures: Experience Report of ATAM in an Automotive Context

Ferber, Stefan; Heidl, P; Lutz, Peter

doi:10.1007/3-540-47833-7_33

Cited by 14 publications

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“…However, when comparing the experiences of SWAB with applying ATAM to mature products, we observe several similarities: The findings were unsurprising, and minor than expected for the experienced architects, but evaluation resulted in other benefits, such as explicating risks, better communication and raising awareness about the architecture [11]. These kinds of other benefits are observed in addition to above discussed trade-offs, problems and risks also in general [1] and in the evaluation of new projects [23].…”

Section: Discussion and Related Worksupporting

confidence: 52%

Architecture management and evaluation in mature products

Raatikainen

Savolainen

Männistö

2014

Proceedings of the 10th International ACM Sigsoft Conference on Quality of Software Architectures

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Software architecture evaluation is an essential part of architecture management and a means to uncover problems and increase confidence in the capability of the software architecture in fulfilling the most critical requirements. Architecture evaluation is typically carried out at an early stage of a software development. However, development efforts are often related to further development of existing software. We present a case study of the software architecture board (SWAB) initiative carried out at in a company called NSN. SWAB employed a lightweight architecture evaluation and management approach to exchange architectural experiences with related products and assess ability to fulfill future requirements. SWAB operated for two years but ultimately came to an end because the desired objectives were not achieved. The case study provides lessons for the evaluation of architecture in mature products and for using a lightweight evaluation approach: Evaluation in mature products seems not to be about finding problems and risk or making trade-offs, but about architecture management such as better communication, raising awareness about the architecture, and increased confidence to the architecture throughout the organization; and a lightweight architecture evaluation seems to be a good approach especially for mature products. However, the motivation and justification for architectural evaluation of mature products remains challenging, as their architecture is already in place and evolved over years towards good candidates, although the need for inter-product communication and alignment of architectural issues can be argued for.

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Section: Discussion and Related Worksupporting

confidence: 52%

Architecture management and evaluation in mature products

Raatikainen

Savolainen

Männistö

2014

Proceedings of the 10th International ACM Sigsoft Conference on Quality of Software Architectures

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“…As mentioned above, ATAM has a well-documented record of successful use in a wide range of applications, including automotive systems [14], financial services software [15], simulation systems [16], industrial applications [17], web-based systems [18], and even a component-oriented domain architecture for fish farming [19]. It is worth noting that, in some of the aforementioned applications, individual steps of ATAM were adapted to suit the target application domain.…”

Section: Spa Assessment Methodsmentioning

confidence: 98%

A holistic architecture assessment method for software product lines

Olumofin

Mišić

2007

Information and Software Technology

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“…There are several reports on successful applications of ATAM for assessment of a battlefield control system [9], wargame simulation [7], product line architecture [13], control of a transportation system [3] and credit card transactions system [12]. Recently, a few extensions of ATAM were proposed, including combination with the Analytical Hierarchy Process [16] and APTIA [10].…”

Section: The Atam Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%