Software Engineering Institute

Rick Kazman

Software Engineering Institute

Publications by Rick Kazman

Software Architecture Patterns for Deployability

November 15, 2022 • Podcast

Rick Kazman

Rick Kazman, an SEI visiting scientist and coauthor of Software Architecture in Practice, talks with principal researcher Suzanne Miller about using patterns for software deployability.
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Software Architecture Patterns for Robustness

September 15, 2022 • Podcast

Rick Kazman

Rick Kazman discusses software architecture patterns and the effect that certain architectural patterns have on quality attributes, such as availability and robustness.
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Extensibility

April 06, 2022 • Technical Report

Rick Kazman Sebastián Echeverría James Ivers

This report summarizes how to systematically analyze a software architecture with respect to a quality attribute requirement for extensibility.
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Robustness

March 16, 2022 • Technical Report

Rick Kazman Philip Bianco Sebastián Echeverría

This report summarizes how to systematically analyze a software architecture with respect to a quality attribute requirement for robustness.
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Software Architecture in Practice, 4th Edition

August 03, 2021 • Book

Len Bass Paul C. Clements Rick Kazman

Software Architecture in Practice, 4th Edition, explains what software architecture is, why it's important, and how to design, analyze, evolve, and manage it.
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Maintainability

December 01, 2020 • Technical Report

Rick Kazman Philip Bianco James Ivers

This report summarizes how to systematically analyze a software architecture with respect to a quality attribute requirement for maintainability.
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A Playbook for Early Architecture Analysis

November 13, 2020 • Presentation

John Klein Philip Bianco Rick Kazman

This talk describes a playbook to analyze early architecture artifacts' support for development-time quality attributes that affect long-term system success.
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Integrability

February 07, 2020 • Technical Report

Rick Kazman Philip Bianco James Ivers

This report summarizes how to systematically analyze a software architecture with respect to a quality attribute requirement for integrability.
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Rapid Software Composition by Assessing Untrusted Components

October 23, 2018 • Poster

Rick Kazman

This poster describes efforts to increase the speed and confidence of the component selection process in software systems.
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Predicting Security Flaws through Architectural Flaws

October 23, 2018 • Poster

Robert Schiela Rick Kazman

This poster describes efforts toward using automated architecture analysis to identify, prevent, and mitigate security flaws in code.
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SEI Cyber Minute: Why Use Dynamic Design Analysis?

February 23, 2018 • Video

Rick Kazman

By considering dynamic information in conjunction with static information, we can precisely locate such design flaws, and determine the root causes of bugs more quickly.
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Dynamic Design Analysis

October 30, 2017 • Presentation

Rick Kazman

Presentation on research to identify dynamic dependencies that result from the way modern systems are composed
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Dynamic Design Analysis

October 30, 2017 • Poster

Rick Kazman

Poster on research into dynamic dependencies that arise from the way modern systems are composed
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Designing Software Architectures: A Practical Approach

May 13, 2016 • Book

Humberto Cervantes (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana–Iztapalapa)Rick Kazman

Designing Software Architectures will teach you how to design any software architecture in a systematic, predictable, repeatable, and cost-effective way.
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Identifying the Architectural Roots of Vulnerabilities

February 04, 2016 • Podcast

Rick Kazman Carol Woody

In this podcast, Rick Kazman and Carol Woody discuss an approach for identifying architecture debt in a large-scale industrial software project by modeling software architecture as design rule spaces.
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Extending AADL for Security Design Assurance of Cyber-Physical Systems

December 16, 2015 • Technical Report

Robert J. Ellison Allen D. Householder John J. Hudak

This report demonstrates the viability and limitations of using the Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) through an extended example that allows for specifying and analyzing the security properties of an automotive electronics system.
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Extending AADL for Security Design Assurance of the Internet of Things Poster (SEI 2015 Research Review)

October 22, 2015 • Poster

Rick Kazman Carol Woody

This poster describes a project that aims to extend AADL to better address security in the architecture
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Extending AADL for Security Design Assurance of the Internet of Things

October 16, 2015 • Presentation

Carol Woody Rick Kazman

This project aims to extend AADL to better address security in the architecture
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Approaching Security from an "Architecture First" Perspective

May 05, 2015 • Webinar

Rick Kazman

In this talk we report on three case studies of real-world projects—two industrial and one open-source—where we attempted to measure the consequences of various architectural approaches to security.
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Toward Design Decisions to Enable Deployability: Empirical Study of Three Projects Reaching for the Continuous Delivery Holy Grail

June 23, 2014 • Conference Paper

Stephany Bellomo Neil Ernst Robert Nord

This paper summarizes three project teams' deployability goals and the architectural decisions they made to enable deployability while practicing continuous delivery.
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Security Pattern Assurance through Roundtrip Engineering

February 13, 2014 • Podcast

Rick Kazman Suzanne Miller

In this podcast, Rick Kazman discusses these challenges and a solution he has developed for achieving system security qualities through use of patterns.
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Understanding Patterns for System-of-Systems Integration

December 17, 2013 • Technical Report

Rick Kazman Claus Nielsen (No Affiliation)Klaus Schmid

This report discusses how a software architect can address the system-of-systems integration challenge from an architectural perspective.
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Understanding Patterns for System of Systems Integration

August 08, 2013 • Conference Paper

Rick Kazman Klaus Schmid (University of Hildesheim)Claus Nielsen (Aarhus University)

This paper develops a way to characterize system-of-systems (SoS) integration patterns and highlights important issues that a SoS architect must consider.
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Results of SEI Line-Funded Exploratory New Starts Projects: FY 2012

July 01, 2013 • Technical Report

Bjorn Andersson Lori Flynn David P. Gluch

This report describes line-funded exploratory new starts (LENS) projects that were conducted during fiscal year 2012 (October 2011 through September 2012).
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Common Software Platforms in System-of-Systems Architectures: The State of the Practice

June 06, 2013 • White Paper

John Klein Sholom G. Cohen Rick Kazman

System-of-systems (SoS) architectures based on common software platforms have been commercially successful, but progress on creating and adopting them has been slow. This study aimed to understand technical issues for their development and adoption.
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A Principled Way to Use Frameworks in Architecture Design

November 30, 2012 • Article

Humberto Cervantes (Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana–Iztapalapa)Perla Velasco-Elizondo (Autonomous University of Zacatecas)Rick Kazman

In the past decade, researchers have devised many methods to support and codify architecture design.
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Software Architecture in Practice, 3rd Edition

September 25, 2012 • Book

Len Bass Paul C. Clements Rick Kazman

If you design, develop, or manage large software systems (or plan to do so), you will find "Software Architecture in Practice, Third Edition" to be a valuable resource for getting up to speed on the state of the art.
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An Early Look at Defining Variability Requirements for System-of-Systems Platforms

September 25, 2012 • Conference Paper

John Klein Gary Chastek Sholom G. Cohen

This paper describes the development of a method for analyzing decisions about requirements for common platforms for systems of systems to enable controlled evolution.
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Results of SEI Line-Funded Exploratory New Starts Projects

August 01, 2012 • Technical Report

Len Bass Rick Kazman Edwin J. Morris

This report describes the line-funded exploratory new starts (LENS) projects that were undertaken during fiscal year 2011. For each project, the report presents a brief description and a recounting of the research that was done, as well as a synopsis of the results of the project.
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Panel Discussion: 20 Years of Architecture, Rick Kazman

May 10, 2012 • Presentation

Rick Kazman

Rick Kazman's's slides from the panel discussion on 20 Years of Architecture at the SATURN 2012 conference, May 7-11, 2012, St. Petersburg, FL.
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A Mashup of Techniques to Create Reference Architectures

May 08, 2012 • Presentation

Rick Kazman John McGregor

This presentation, given at the Architecture and Process track at SATURN 2012 on May 7-11, 2012, in St Petersburg, FL, discusses existing techniques that can help organize the inputs required to create a robust reference architecture.
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Evaluating a Partial Architecture in a ULS Context

May 13, 2011 • Presentation

Len Bass James Ivers Rick Kazman

This presentation from SATURN 2011 discusses the application of architectural principles to analyzing an architectural landscape.
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Architecture Evaluation without an Architecture: Experience with the Smart Grid

April 30, 2011 • White Paper

Rick Kazman Len Bass James Ivers

This paper describes an analysis of some of the challenges facing one portion of the Electrical Smart Grid in the United States - residential Demand Response (DR) systems.
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Managing Technical Debt in Software-Reliant Systems

November 08, 2010 • Conference Paper

Nanette Brown Robert Nord Ipek Ozkaya

This paper describes how software engineers can manage technical debt based on models of their economic impact.
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Edge Enabled Systems

May 19, 2010 • White Paper

Zacharie Hall (Aberdeen Proving Ground)Rick Kazman Daniel Plakosh

This paper describes the characteristics of edge systems and the edge organizations in which these systems operate, and make initial recommendations about how such systems and organizations can be created to serve the needs of users at the edge.
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Realizing and Refining Architectural Tactics: Availability

August 01, 2009 • Technical Report

James Scott (Boeing Company)Rick Kazman

Tactics are fundamental elements of software architecture that an architect employs to meet a system's quality requirements. This report describes an updated set of tactics that enable the architect to build availability into a system.
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Experience with the Architecture Improvement Workshop (SATURN 2009)

May 07, 2009 • Presentation

Lawrence G. Jones Rick Kazman

Lawrence G. Jones and Rick Kazman describe the Architecture Improvement Workshop (AIW) and discuss how it was used to support the evolution of the Space Surveillance Network Analysis Model (SSNAM). System.
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A Framework for Making Architectural Decisions in a Business Context (SATURN 2009)

April 20, 2009 • Presentation

Jeromy Carriere Rick Kazman Ipek Ozkaya

Presentation given at SATURN 2009, which was held in Pittsburgh, PA in May 2009.
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A Workshop on Architecture Competence

April 01, 2009 • Technical Note

Len Bass Paul C. Clements Rick Kazman

This report summarizes a June 2008 architecture competence workshop where practitioners discussed key issues in assessing architecture competence in organizations.
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Results of SEI Independent Research and Development Projects (FY 2008)

December 01, 2008 • Technical Report

Dionisio de Niz Gabriel Moreno Robert Nord

This report describes the independent research and development (IRAD) projects that were conducted during fiscal year 2008 (October 2007 through September 2008).
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Current SAT Work in Architecture Evolution (SATURN 2008)

April 28, 2008 • Presentation

Rick Kazman

Presentation for the 2008 SATURN workshop held in Pittsburgh
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Models for Evaluating and Improving Architecture Competence

March 01, 2008 • Technical Report

Len Bass Paul C. Clements Rick Kazman

This report outlines the concepts of software architecture competence and describes four models for explaining, measuring, and improving the architecture competence of an individual or a software-producing organization.
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Classifying Architectural Elements as a Foundation for Mechanism Matching

November 01, 2007 • White Paper

Len Bass Paul C. Clements Rick Kazman

This paper presents a set of well known but informally described software architectural elements used in system composition, and taxonomizes them under a basic set of characteristic features.
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SAAM: A Method for Analyzing the Properties of Software Architectures

May 01, 2007 • White Paper

Gregory Abowd Len Bass Rick Kazman

This paper describes three perspectives by which we can understand the description of a software architecture and proposes a five-step method for analyzing software architectures called SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method).
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Quality-Attribute-Based Economic Valuation of Architectural Patterns

May 01, 2007 • Technical Report

Ipek Ozkaya Rick Kazman Mark H. Klein

This report shows how an analysis of the options embodied within architectural patterns allows a software and system architect or manager to make reasoned choices about the future value of design decisions.
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Ultra-Large-Scale Systems: The Software Challenge of the Future

June 01, 2006 • Book

Peter H. Feiler Kevin Sullivan (University of Virginia)Kurt C. Wallnau

Ultra-Large-Scale Systems: The Software Challenge of the Future is the product of a 12-month study of ultra-large-scale (ULS) systems software.
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Architecture Risk Reduction Activities (SATURN 2006)

April 25, 2006 • Presentation

Rick Kazman

Presentation from the SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop, held between April 25-26, 2006.
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The Duties, Skills, and Knowledge of Software Architects

January 09, 2006 • Conference Paper

Paul C. Clements Rick Kazman Mark H. Klein

This paper focuses on the human aspects of architecting software-in particular, the duties, skills, and knowledge of software architects.
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Results of SEI Independent Research and Development Projects and Report on Emerging Technologies and Technology Trends (FY2005)

December 01, 2005 • Technical Report

Rosann W. Collins Rick Kazman Richard C. Linger (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

This report describes the IR&D projects that were conducted during fiscal year 2005 (October 2004 through September 2005). In addition, this report provides information on what the SEI has learned in its role as a technology scout for developments over the past year in the field of software engineering.
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Categorizing Business Goals for Software Architectures

December 01, 2005 • Technical Report

Rick Kazman Len Bass

This report provides a categorization of possible business goals for software-intensive systems, so that individuals have some guidance in the elicitation, expression, and documentation of business goals.
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Discovering Architectures from Running Systems: Lessons Learned

December 01, 2004 • Technical Report

Hong Yan Jonathan Aldrich David Garlan

This report describes a technique that uses automatically generated runtime observations of an executing system to construct an architectural view of the system.
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Results of SEI Independent Research and Development Projects and Report on Emerging Technologies and Technology Trends (FY 2004)

October 01, 2004 • Technical Report

John K. Bergey Edwin J. Morris Jeannine Siviy

This report describes the IR&D projects that were conducted during fiscal year 2004 (October 2003 through September 2004).
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Integrating Software-Architecture-Centric Methods into the Rational Unified Process

July 01, 2004 • Technical Report

Rick Kazman Philippe Kruchten Robert Nord

This report presents a summary of the RUP (Rational Unified Process) and examines the potential uses of the SEI's architecture-centric methods.
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Integrating the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) with the Cost Benefit Analysis Method (CBAM)

December 01, 2003 • Technical Note

Robert Nord Mario R. Barbacci Paul C. Clements

This technical note reports on a proposal to integrate the SEI ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method) and the CBAM (Cost Benefit Analysis Method).
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Architecture Reconstruction Guidelines, Third Edition

November 01, 2003 • Technical Report

Rick Kazman Liam O'Brien Chris Verhoef

This report describes the process of architecture reconstruction using the Dali architecture reconstruction workbench.
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A Life-Cycle View of Architecture Analysis and Design Methods

September 01, 2003 • Technical Note

Rick Kazman Robert Nord Mark H. Klein

This report examines the architecture-centric analysis and design methods that were created at the SEI between 1993 and 2003.
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Architecture, Design, Implementation

May 01, 2003 • White Paper

Rick Kazman

Architecture, design, and implementation are used informally in partitioning software specifications into three coarse strata of abstraction. These strata are not well-defined in either research or practice, causing miscommunication and needless debate.
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Software Architecture in Practice, 2nd Edition

April 09, 2003 • Book

Len Bass Paul C. Clements Rick Kazman

This book provides an easily accessible overview of software architecture. Anyone requiring a comprehensive overview of the software architecture field will benefit from this book.
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Quantifying the Value of Architecture Design Decisions: Lessons from the Field

January 01, 2003 • White Paper

Jai Asundi Rick Kazman Mark H. Klein

This paper outlines experiences with using economic criteria to make architecture design decisions.
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SEI Independent Research and Development Projects

October 01, 2002 • Technical Report

Steve Cross Kurt C. Wallnau Eileen C. Forrester

This report describes the IR&D projects that were conducted during fiscal year 2002 (October 2001 through September 2002).
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Assessing the Economic Impacts of Architectural Decisions

September 30, 2002 • Presentation

Rick Kazman

The CBAM (Cost Benefit Analysis Method) extends the ATAM framework to elicit and model costs, benefits, and uncertainty.
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Making Architecture Design Decisions: An Economic Approach

September 01, 2002 • Technical Report

Rick Kazman Jai Asundi Mark H. Klein

This report describes the improvements to the CBAM (Cost Benefit Analysis Method) and provides a pilot case study conducted with NASA.
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Using Economic Considerations to Choose Among Architecture Design Alternatives

December 01, 2001 • Technical Report

Jai Asundi Rick Kazman Mark H. Klein

The SEI developed the CBAM (Cost Benefit Analysis Method), which incorporates the costs and benefits of architectural design decisions and provides an effective means of making such decisions. This paper reports on the application of this method to a real world case study.
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Evaluating Software Architectures: Methods and Case Studies

October 22, 2001 • Book

Paul C. Clements Rick Kazman Mark H. Klein

This book is a comprehensive guide to software architecture evaluation, describing specific methods that can quickly and inexpensively mitigate enormous risk in software projects.
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Architecture Reconstruction Guidelines

August 01, 2001 • Technical Report

Rick Kazman Liam O'Brien Chris Verhoef

This report describes the process of architecture reconstruction using the Dali architecture reconstruction workbench.
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ATAM: Method for Architecture Evaluation

August 01, 2000 • Technical Report

Rick Kazman Mark H. Klein Paul C. Clements

This report presents technical and organizational foundations for performing architectural analysis, and presents the SEI's ATAM, a technique for analyzing software architectures.
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Attribute-Based Architectural Styles

October 01, 1999 • Technical Report

Mark H. Klein Rick Kazman

This report establishes a common format for documenting ABASs in the hope that they will become the foundation for anyone who is doing system design and analysis.
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Software Architecture Evaluation with ATAM in the DoD System Acquisition Context

September 01, 1999 • Technical Note

John K. Bergey Matt Fisher Lawrence G. Jones

This report explains the basics of software architecture and software architecture evaluation in a system acquisition context.
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Architecture-Based Development

April 01, 1999 • Technical Report

Len Bass Rick Kazman

This report presents a description of architecture-centric system development.
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Software Architectural Transformation

January 01, 1999 • White Paper

Rick Kazman Steve Woods

This paper presents a concrete example of an architecturally-motivated reengineering task.
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The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method

July 01, 1998 • Technical Report

Rick Kazman Mark H. Klein Mario R. Barbacci

This paper presents the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM), a structured technique for understanding the tradeoffs inherent in the architectures of software-intensive systems.
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View Extraction and View Fusion in Architectural Understanding

June 01, 1998 • White Paper

Jeromy Carriere Rick Kazman

This paper presents a workbench for architectural extraction called Dali, and shows how Dali supports flexible extraction and fusion of architectural information. Its use is described through two extended examples of architectural reconstruction.
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The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method

April 01, 1998 • White Paper

Rick Kazman Mark H. Klein Mario R. Barbacci

This paper presents the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM), a structured technique for understanding the tradeoffs inherent in design.
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Assessment of CORBA and POSIX Designs for FAA En Route Resectorization

April 01, 1998 • Special Report

B. Craig Meyers Daniel Plakosh Patrick R. Place

This report addresses the use of different technologies and an architectural tradeoff approach on a typical En Route system problem.
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Assessing Architectural Complexity

March 01, 1998 • White Paper

Marcus Burth (University of Mannheim)Rick Kazman

This paper describes a system, called IAPR, that aids in architectural exploration and measurement by attempting to match patterns to an architecture.
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Requirements for Integrating Software Architecture

January 01, 1998 • White Paper

Jeromy Carriere Rick Kazman Steve Woods

This paper discusses the requirements and a generic framework for the integration of architectural and code-based reengineering tools.
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An Approach to Software Architecture Analysis for Evolution and Reusability

November 01, 1997 • White Paper

Sonia Bot (Nortel)Kalai Kalaichelvan (Nortel)Rick Kazman

This paper presents an approach to capturing and assessing software architectures for evolution and reuse.
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Assessing Design Quality From a Software Architectural Perspective

October 01, 1997 • White Paper

Jeromy Carriere Rick Kazman

This whitepaper argues that good object oriented designs accrue from attention to both the design of objects and classes and to the architectural framework which defines how instances of those classes interact.
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Playing Detective: Reconstructing Software Architecture from Available Evidence

October 01, 1997 • Technical Report

Rick Kazman Jeromy Carriere

This paper presents Dali, an open, lightweight workbench that aids an analyst in extracting, manipulating, and interpreting architectural information.
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Recommended Best Industrial Practice for Software Architecture Evaluation

January 13, 1997 • Technical Report

Gregory Abowd Len Bass Paul C. Clements

This report details the results of two workshops on software architecture evaluation, held at the SEI in 1996.
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Scenario-Based Analysis of Software Architecture

November 01, 1996 • White Paper

Gregory Abowd Len Bass Paul C. Clements

This paper presents an experiential case study illustrating the methodological use of scenarios to gain architecture-level understanding and predictive insight into large, real-world systems in various domains.
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Tool Support for Architecture Analysis and Design

January 01, 1996 • White Paper

Rick Kazman

This position paper first presents a set of requirements that an ideal tool for architectural design and analysis, and then presents a tool—called SAAMtool—that meets most, but not all, of these requirements.
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An Architectural Analysis Case Study: Internet Information Systems

April 01, 1995 • White Paper

Gregory Abowd Len Bass Paul C. Clements

This paper presents a method for analyzing systems for nonfunctional qualities from the perspective of their software architecture and applies this method to the field of Internet information systems (IISs).
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An Architectural Analysis Case Study:Internet Information Systems

April 01, 1995 • White Paper

Gregory Abowd Len Bass Paul C. Clements

This paper presents a method for analyzing systems for nonfunctional qualities from the perspective of their software architecture and applies this method to the field of Internet information systems (IISs).
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Toward Deriving Software Architectures from Quality Attributes

August 01, 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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