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Quality of Software Architectures

Second International Conference on Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2006, Västeras, Schweden, June 27-29, 2006, Revised Papers

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Christine Hofmeister

    1. Lehigh University,  

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  2. Ivica Crnkovic

    1. School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden

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  3. Ralf Reussner

    1. Chair for Software Design and Quality, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 4214)

Part of the book sub series: Programming and Software Engineering (LNPSE)

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  3. Abstracts of the Tutorials

    1. Documentation Principles and Practices That You Can Live with

      • Judith Stafford
      Pages 3-4

    2. Model-Based Software Development with Eclipse

      • Ralf Reussner, Steffen Becker
      Pages 5-6

    3. Software Architecture Analysis and Evaluation

      • Heinz Züllighoven, Carola Lilienthal, Marcel Bennicke
      Pages 7-8

  4. Architecture Evaluation: Selecting Alternatives

    1. MEMS: A Method for Evaluating Middleware Architectures

      • Yan Liu, Ian Gorton, Len Bass, Cuong Hoang, Suhail Abanmi
      Pages 9-26

    2. Evaluating Alternative COTS Assemblies from Imperfect Component Information

      • Hernán Astudillo, Javier Pereira, Claudia López
      Pages 27-42

  5. Managing and Applying Architectural Knowledge

    1. Building Up and Reasoning About Architectural Knowledge

      • Philippe Kruchten, Patricia Lago, Hans van Vliet
      Pages 43-58

    2. Managing Architectural Design Decisions for Safety-Critical Software Systems

      • Weihang Wu, Tim Kelly
      Pages 59-77

  6. Architectural Evaluation: Performance Prediction

    1. Runtime Prediction of Queued Behaviour

      • Nurzhan Duzbayev, Iman Poernomo
      Pages 78-94

    2. Model Transformation in Software Performance Engineering

      • Antinisca Di Marco, Raffaela Mirandola
      Pages 95-110

  7. Processes for Supporting Architecture Quality

    1. Traveling Architects – A New Way of Herding Cats

      • Aino Vonge Corry, Klaus Marius Hansen, David Svensson
      Pages 111-126

    2. A Practical Architecture-Centric Analysis Process

      • Antonio Bucchiarone, Henry Muccini, Patrizio Pelliccione
      Pages 127-144

  8. Models for Architecture Evaluation

    1. Embedded Systems Architecture: Evaluation and Analysis

      • Bastian Florentz, Michaela Huhn
      Pages 145-162

    2. Parameter Dependent Performance Specifications of Software Components

      • Heiko Koziolek, Jens Happe, Steffen Becker
      Pages 163-179

  9. Architectural Evaluation

    1. Applying the ATAM to an Architecture for Decentralized Control of a Transportation System

      • Nelis Boucké, Danny Weyns, Kurt Schelfthout, Tom Holvoet
      Pages 180-198

    2. Towards an Integration of Standard Component-Based Safety Evaluation Techniques with SaveCCM

      • Lars Grunske
      Pages 199-213

  10. Back Matter

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Although the quality of a system’s software architecture is one of the critical factors in its overall quality, the architecture is simply a means to an end, the end being the implemented system. Thus the ultimate measure of the quality of the software architecture lies in the implemented system, in how well it satis?es the system and project requirements and constraints and whether it can be maintained and evolved successfully. In order to treat design as a science rather thananart,weneedtobeabletoaddressthequalityofthesoftwarearchitecture directly, not simply as it is re?ected in the implemented system. Therefore, QoSA is concerned with software architecture quality directly by addressing the problems of: – Designing software architectures of good quality – De?ning, measuring, evaluating architecture quality – Managing architecture quality, tying it upstream to requirements and do- stream to implementation, and preserving architecture quality throughout the lifetime of the system Cross-cutting these problems is the question of the nature of software archit- ture. Software architecture organizes a system, partitioning it into elements and de?ning relationships among the elements. For this we often use multiple views, each with a di?erent organizing principle.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Lehigh University,  

    Christine Hofmeister

  • School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden

    Ivica Crnkovic

  • Chair for Software Design and Quality, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe, Germany

    Ralf Reussner

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