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A software architecture evaluation is a way to assess the quality of the technical design of a product. It is also a prime opportunity to discuss the business goals of the product and how the design bears on them. But architecture evaluation methods are seen as hard to learn and costly to use. We present DASE, a compact approach that combines carefully selected key parts of two existing architecture evaluation methods while making evaluation lean and fast. We have applied DASE in three industrial cases and the early results show that even a one-day evaluation workshop yields valuable results at a modest cost.
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This work was supported by the Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation (Tekes) as part of the N4S Program of DIMECC (http://www.dimecc.com/).
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Tuovinen, AP., Mäkinen, S., Leppänen, M., Sievi-Korte, O., Lahtinen, S., Männistö, T. (2017). Unwasted DASE: Lean Architecture Evaluation. In: Felderer, M., Méndez Fernández, D., Turhan, B., Kalinowski, M., Sarro, F., Winkler, D. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10611. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69926-4_10
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