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Exploring Quality Attributes Using Architectural Prototyping

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Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality (QoSA 2005, SOQUA 2005)

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A central tenet of software architecture design is to base this on a formulation of desired quality attributes, such as buildability, performance, and availability of the target system. Thus there is a need for architectural evaluation—ensuring the architecture’s support for desired quality attributes—and a variety of evaluation techniques have been developed, described, and used. Architectural prototyping is an experimental approach that creates executable ‘skeleton’ systems to investigate architectural qualities of a future system. Architectural prototyping is a learning vehicle for exploring an architectural design space as well as an evaluation technique. The contribution of this paper is to explore the evaluation aspect of architectural prototypes from an analytical standpoint. We present an analysis and discussion of architectural prototyping in the context of two well-established quality frameworks. Our analysis concludes that architectural prototyping is a viable evaluation technique that may evaluate architectural quality attributes and especially valuable in cases where the balance between opposing qualities must be assessed.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, Aabogade 34, 8200, Århus N, Denmark

    Jakob Eyvind Bardram, Henrik Bærbak Christensen, Aino Vonge Corry, Klaus Marius Hansen & Mads Ingstrup

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  1. Chair for Software Design and Quality, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Am Fasanengarten 5, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Ralf Reussner

  2. Dept. of Applied Information Processing, University of Ulm, 89069, Ulm, Germany

    Johannes Mayer

  3. Computer Science, Tufts University, 161 College Avenue, Medford, 02155, Boston, MA, USA

    Judith A. Stafford

  4. Dept. of Software Engineering and Business Information Systems, Augsburg University, Universitätsstraße 16, 86135, Augsburg, Germany

    Sven Overhage

  5. FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik, Haid-und-Neu-Straße 10-14, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Steffen Becker

  6. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Milwaukee School of Engineering, 53202, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Patrick J. Schroeder

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Bardram, J.E., Christensen, H.B., Corry, A.V., Hansen, K.M., Ingstrup, M. (2005). Exploring Quality Attributes Using Architectural Prototyping. In: Reussner, R., Mayer, J., Stafford, J.A., Overhage, S., Becker, S., Schroeder, P.J. (eds) Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality. QoSA SOQUA 2005 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3712. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11558569_12

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