Toward Deriving Software Architectures from Quality Attributes

August 1994 • Technical Report

Rick Kazman, Len Bass

This report presents a method for deriving software architectures from a consideration of the non-functional qualities of a system.

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Software Engineering Institute

CMU/SEI Report Number

CMU/SEI-94-TR-010

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Software ArchitectureSoftware Architecture

Abstract

A method for deriving software architectures from a consideration of the non-functional qualities of the system is presented. The method is based on identifying a set of six "unit operations" and using those operations to partition the functionality of the system. These unit operations were derived from the literature and from expert practice. The relationship between the unit operations and a set of eight non-functional qualities is explored. Evidence is provided for the validity of the method by using it to derive six well-known architectures from the areas of user interface software and compiler constructions.

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Kazman, Rick; & Bass, Len. Toward Deriving Software Architectures from Quality Attributes. CMU/SEI-94-TR-010 . Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. 1994. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=12177

IEEE

Kazman. Rick, and Bass. Len, "Toward Deriving Software Architectures from Quality Attributes," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-94-TR-010 , 1994. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=12177

APA

Kazman, Rick., & Bass, Len. (1994). Toward Deriving Software Architectures from Quality Attributes (CMU/SEI-94-TR-010 ). Retrieved May 28, 2023, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=12177

CHI

Rick Kazman, & Len Bass. Toward Deriving Software Architectures from Quality Attributes (CMU/SEI-94-TR-010 ). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1994. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=12177

MLA

Kazman, Rick., & Bass, Len. 1994. Toward Deriving Software Architectures from Quality Attributes (Technical Report CMU/SEI-94-TR-010 ). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=12177

BibTex

@techreport{KazmanTowardDeriving1994,
title={Toward Deriving Software Architectures from Quality Attributes},
author={Rick Kazman and Len Bass},
year={1994},
number={CMU/SEI-94-TR-010 },
institution={Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University},
address={Pittsburgh, PA},
url={http://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?AssetID=12177} }

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