Recommended Best Industrial Practice for Software Architecture Evaluation
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Publisher
Software Engineering Institute
CMU/SEI Report Number
CMU/SEI-96-TR-025Subjects
Abstract
Architectural decisions have a great impact on the consequent quality of software systems. As a result, it is important to evaluate how a software architecture meets it quality demands. Though much focus has been placed on modeling and describing the software architecture as a design artifact, we found that relatively little is known about the current experience with software architecture.
This report details the results of two workshops on software architecture evaluation, held at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) on November 9-10, 1995 and May 9-10, 1996. The purpose of the workshops was to determine the state of industrial practice in the evaluation of software architectures with respect to a set of desired quality attributes, and to uncover recommendations for best practices. In this report, we summarize the findings of the two workshops, define a set of dimensions to characterize various software architecture evaluation techniques, and make concrete recommendations for implementing architecture evaluation practices.
Cite This Technical Report
Abowd, G., Bass, L., Clements, P., Kazman, R., Northrop, L., & Zaremski, A. (1997, January 13). Recommended Best Industrial Practice for Software Architecture Evaluation. (Technical Report CMU/SEI-96-TR-025). Retrieved April 18, 2024, from https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/recommended-best-industrial-practice-for-software-architecture-evaluation/.
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title={Recommended Best Industrial Practice for Software Architecture Evaluation},
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Abowd, Gregory, Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman, Linda Northrop, and Amy Zaremski. "Recommended Best Industrial Practice for Software Architecture Evaluation." (CMU/SEI-96-TR-025). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library. Software Engineering Institute, January 13, 1997. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/recommended-best-industrial-practice-for-software-architecture-evaluation/.
G. Abowd, L. Bass, P. Clements, R. Kazman, L. Northrop, and A. Zaremski, "Recommended Best Industrial Practice for Software Architecture Evaluation," Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library. Software Engineering Institute, Technical Report CMU/SEI-96-TR-025, 13-Jan-1997 [Online]. Available: https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/recommended-best-industrial-practice-for-software-architecture-evaluation/. [Accessed: 18-Apr-2024].
Abowd, Gregory, Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman, Linda Northrop, and Amy Zaremski. "Recommended Best Industrial Practice for Software Architecture Evaluation." (Technical Report CMU/SEI-96-TR-025). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library, Software Engineering Institute, 13 Jan. 1997. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/recommended-best-industrial-practice-for-software-architecture-evaluation/. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
Abowd, Gregory; Bass, Len; Clements, Paul; Kazman, Rick; Northrop, Linda; & Zaremski, Amy. Recommended Best Industrial Practice for Software Architecture Evaluation. CMU/SEI-96-TR-025. Software Engineering Institute. 1997. https://insights.sei.cmu.edu/library/recommended-best-industrial-practice-for-software-architecture-evaluation/