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Evaluating Software Architectures

Author : Paul Clements
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Evaluating Software Architectures written by Paul Clements and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2002 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foundation of any software system is its architecture. Using this book, you can evaluate every aspect of architecture in advance, at remarkably low cost -- identifying improvements that can dramatically improve any system's performance, security, reliability, and maintainability. As the practice of software architecture has matured, it has become possible to identify causal connections between architectural design decisions and the qualities and properties that result downstream in the systems that follow from them. This book shows how, offering step-by-step guidance, as well as detailed practical examples -- complete with sample artifacts reflective of those that evaluators will encounter. The techniques presented here are applicable not only to software architectures, but also to system architectures encompassing computing hardware, networking equipment, and other elements. For all software architects, software engineers, developers, IT managers, and others responsible for creating, evaluating, or implementing software architectures.

Software Architecture in Practice

Author : Len Bass
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780321154958
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (549 download)

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Book Synopsis Software Architecture in Practice by : Len Bass

Download or read book Software Architecture in Practice written by Len Bass and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2003 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eagerly-anticipated revision to one of the seminal books in the field of software architecture which clearly defines and explains the topic.

Evaluating Software Architectures

Author : Paul Clements
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788131741771
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (417 download)

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Download or read book Evaluating Software Architectures written by Paul Clements and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Evaluating Software Architecture Based on Their Implemented Patterns and Tactics

Author : Hind Ahmad Ismail Bani Milhem
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Evaluating Software Architecture Based on Their Implemented Patterns and Tactics written by Hind Ahmad Ismail Bani Milhem and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Context: Software architecture plays a critical role in achieving system quality attributes. Therefore, evaluating a system's architecture with regard to desired quality requirements is very important. Architecture evaluation is an approach for assessing whether a software architecture can support the system needs, especially its quality attributes. Software architecture evaluation methods have been developed based on various characteristics and criteria such as the previous experience and domain knowledge of architects or developers, mathematical methods, features and scenarios, and testing. However, these methods may not be sufficient to reliably analyze certain quality attributes (i.e. performance, availability, and reliability). These methods also put little consideration on the architectural patterns and tactics used in the implementation, and the importance values of the desired quality attributes. Objectives: This thesis proposes an architecture evaluation approach that considers satisfaction values of the quality attributes (Non-Functional Requirements) by the implemented patterns and tactics. The main objectives of this thesis are to provide: • A way to connect a software implementation to quality attributes to support a software architecture evaluation based on its implemented architectural patterns and tactics. The evaluation considers the importance values of the quality attributes. • Software architectures model in terms of their implemented architectural patterns and tactics taking into consideration the overlaps between the architectural patterns and tactics, and the importance values of the quality attributes. Such a model would provide a rationale about the satisfaction levels of given quality attributes and their trade-offs. Method: In this thesis, I extract the implemented architectural patterns and tactics from a software architecture's source code and document them to connect the software architecture to quality requirements. I use a tool called Archie to extract the implemented architectural patterns/tactics from software. I then document and model the patterns/tactics implemented by a software architecture and their impact on quality attributes using the Goal-oriented Requirements Language (GRL). Furthermore, I evaluate the GRL model of a software architecture by applying GRL/jUCMNav evaluation strategies to get the satisfaction values of the quality attributes. I validate the applicability and feasibility of our approach by applying it to different case studies from different contexts (big data systems, the healthcare system of systems, and build-automation systems). I compare the inferred quality attributes such as reliability, availability, performance, etc. to benchmark comparison results from the literature, and existing evaluation approaches. Results: The satisfaction levels of the quality requirements by a set of architectural patterns and tactics of a software architecture, integrated with other criteria such as the importance values of the quality requirements, provide architects with a tool for evaluating different software architectures and documenting their rationale for assessing a software architecture. The three case studies show that our approach can be used to evaluate multiple software architectures and therefore, to identify strengths and weaknesses in different alternatives (i.e. alternative architectures, frameworks) and choose among them during the early design stages (i.e. cyber fusion center case study). Furthermore, it can be used to analyze, understand, and evaluate an existing implementation before future maintenance (i.e. HSH-SoS architecture case study). Additionally, our approach can be used to compare several implementations, based on specific quality attributes (i.e. Gradle and Maven case study). Finally, the modeling artifact should also enable faster evaluation with less efforts compared to the manual inspection of the source code and documentation of a software architecture.

Pragmatic Evaluation of Software Architectures

Author : Jens Knodel
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319341774
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Pragmatic Evaluation of Software Architectures written by Jens Knodel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thorough and continuous architecting is the key to overall success in software engineering, and architecture evaluation is a crucial part of it. This book presents a pragmatic architecture evaluation approach and insights gained from its application in more than 75 projects with industrial customers in the past decade. It presents context factors, empirical data, and example cases, as well as lessons learned on mitigating the risk of change through architecture evaluation. By providing comprehensive answers to more than 100 typical questions and discussing more than 60 frequent mistakes and lessons learned, the book allows readers to not only learn how to conduct architecture evaluations and interpret its results, but also to become aware of risks such as false conclusions, manipulating data, and unsound lines of argument. It equips readers to become confident in assessing quantitative measurement results and recognize when it is better to rely on qualitative expertise. The target readership includes both practitioners and researchers. By demonstrating its impact and providing clear guidelines, data, and examples, it encourages practitioners to conduct architecture evaluations. At the same time, it offers researchers insights into industrial architecture evaluations, which serve as the basis for guiding research in this area and will inspire future research directions.

Automotive Software Architectures

Author : Miroslaw Staron
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030659399
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Automotive Software Architectures by : Miroslaw Staron

Download or read book Automotive Software Architectures written by Miroslaw Staron and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the concept of software architecture as one of the cornerstones of software in modern cars. Following a historical overview of the evolution of software in modern cars and a discussion of the main challenges driving that evolution, Chapter 2 describes the main architectural styles of automotive software and their use in cars’ software. Chapter 3 details this further by presenting two modern architectural styles, i.e. centralized and federated software architectures. In Chapter 4, readers will find a description of the software development processes used to develop software on the car manufacturers’ side. Chapter 5 then introduces AUTOSAR – an important standard in automotive software. Chapter 6 goes beyond simple architecture and describes the detailed design process for automotive software using Simulink, helping readers to understand how detailed design links to high-level design. The new chapter 7 reports on how machine learning is exploited in automotive software e.g. for image recognition and how both on-board and off-board learning are applied. Next, Chapter 8 presents a method for assessing the quality of the architecture – ATAM (Architecture Trade-off Analysis Method) – and provides a sample assessment, while Chapter 9 presents an alternative way of assessing the architecture, namely by using quantitative measures and indicators. Subsequently Chapter 10 dives deeper into one of the specific properties discussed in Chapter 8 – safety – and details an important standard in that area, the ISO/IEC 26262 norm. Lastly, Chapter 11 presents a set of future trends that are currently emerging and have the potential to shape automotive software engineering in the coming years. This book explores the concept of software architecture for modern cars and is intended for both beginning and advanced software designers. It mainly aims at two different groups of audience – professionals working with automotive software who need to understand concepts related to automotive architectures, and students of software engineering or related fields who need to understand the specifics of automotive software to be able to construct cars or their components. Accordingly, the book also contains a wealth of real-world examples illustrating the concepts discussed and requires no prior background in the automotive domain. Compared to the first edition, besides the two new chapters 3 and 7 there are considerable updates in chapters 5 and 8 especially.

Designing Software Architectures

Author : Humberto Cervantes
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN 13 : 0134390830
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Book Synopsis Designing Software Architectures by : Humberto Cervantes

Download or read book Designing Software Architectures written by Humberto Cervantes and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing Software Architectures will teach you how to design any software architecture in a systematic, predictable, repeatable, and cost-effective way. This book introduces a practical methodology for architecture design that any professional software engineer can use, provides structured methods supported by reusable chunks of design knowledge, and includes rich case studies that demonstrate how to use the methods. Using realistic examples, you’ll master the powerful new version of the proven Attribute-Driven Design (ADD) 3.0 method and will learn how to use it to address key drivers, including quality attributes, such as modifiability, usability, and availability, along with functional requirements and architectural concerns. Drawing on their extensive experience, Humberto Cervantes and Rick Kazman guide you through crafting practical designs that support the full software life cycle, from requirements to maintenance and evolution. You’ll learn how to successfully integrate design in your organizational context, and how to design systems that will be built with agile methods. Comprehensive coverage includes Understanding what architecture design involves, and where it fits in the full software development life cycle Mastering core design concepts, principles, and processes Understanding how to perform the steps of the ADD method Scaling design and analysis up or down, including design for pre-sale processes or lightweight architecture reviews Recognizing and optimizing critical relationships between analysis and design Utilizing proven, reusable design primitives and adapting them to specific problems and contexts Solving design problems in new domains, such as cloud, mobile, or big data

Managing Trade-offs in Adaptable Software Architectures

Author : Ivan Mistrik
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 0128028912
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Managing Trade-offs in Adaptable Software Architectures by : Ivan Mistrik

Download or read book Managing Trade-offs in Adaptable Software Architectures written by Ivan Mistrik and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Trade-Offs in Adaptable Software Architectures explores the latest research on adapting large complex systems to changing requirements. To be able to adapt a system, engineers must evaluate different quality attributes, including trade-offs to balance functional and quality requirements to maintain a well-functioning system throughout the lifetime of the system. This comprehensive resource brings together research focusing on how to manage trade-offs and architect adaptive systems in different business contexts. It presents state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies, tools, best practices, and guidelines for developing adaptive systems, and offers guidance for future software engineering research and practice. Each contributed chapter considers the practical application of the topic through case studies, experiments, empirical validation, or systematic comparisons with other approaches already in practice. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, how to architect a system for adaptability, software architecture for self-adaptive systems, understanding and balancing the trade-offs involved, architectural patterns for self-adaptive systems, how quality attributes are exhibited by the architecture of the system, how to connect the quality of a software architecture to system architecture or other system considerations, and more. Explains software architectural processes and metrics supporting highly adaptive and complex engineering Covers validation, verification, security, and quality assurance in system design Discusses domain-specific software engineering issues for cloud-based, mobile, context-sensitive, cyber-physical, ultra-large-scale/internet-scale systems, mash-up, and autonomic systems Includes practical case studies of complex, adaptive, and context-critical systems

Relating System Quality and Software Architecture

Author : Ivan Mistrik
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 0124171680
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Relating System Quality and Software Architecture written by Ivan Mistrik and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: System Quality and Software Architecture collects state-of-the-art knowledge on how to intertwine software quality requirements with software architecture and how quality attributes are exhibited by the architecture of the system. Contributions from leading researchers and industry evangelists detail the techniques required to achieve quality management in software architecting, and the best way to apply these techniques effectively in various application domains (especially in cloud, mobile and ultra-large-scale/internet-scale architecture) Taken together, these approaches show how to assess the value of total quality management in a software development process, with an emphasis on architecture. The book explains how to improve system quality with focus on attributes such as usability, maintainability, flexibility, reliability, reusability, agility, interoperability, performance, and more. It discusses the importance of clear requirements, describes patterns and tradeoffs that can influence quality, and metrics for quality assessment and overall system analysis. The last section of the book leverages practical experience and evidence to look ahead at the challenges faced by organizations in capturing and realizing quality requirements, and explores the basis of future work in this area. Explains how design decisions and method selection influence overall system quality, and lessons learned from theories and frameworks on architectural quality Shows how to align enterprise, system, and software architecture for total quality Includes case studies, experiments, empirical validation, and systematic comparisons with other approaches already in practice.

Quality of Software Architectures

Author : Christine Hofmeister
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540488197
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Quality of Software Architectures written by Christine Hofmeister and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-12-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2006, held in Västerås, Sweden in June 2006, co-located with the 9th International Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering, CBSE 2006. Coverage includes architecture evaluation, managing and applying architectural knowledge, and processes for supporting architecture quality.

Software Architecture

Author : Zheng Qin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 354074343X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Software Architecture by : Zheng Qin

Download or read book Software Architecture written by Zheng Qin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-02-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the new series, Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China, this book aims to introduce the theoretical foundations, various sub-fields, current research, and practical methods of software architecture. First off, readers can acquire a basic knowledge of software architecture, including why software architecture is necessary. They are then shown how to describe a system’s architecture with formal language. The authors continue by delineating which architecture styles are popular in practice.

Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality

Author : Ralf H. Reussner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3540320563
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality written by Ralf H. Reussner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-09-09 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of two colocated events: the First International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA 2005) and the Second International Workshop on Software Quality (SOQUA 2005) held in Erfurt, Germany, in September 2005. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. For QoSA 2005 only 12 papers - of the 31 submitted - were accepted for presentation; they are concerned with research and experiences that investigate the influence a specific software architecture has on software quality aspects. The papers are organized in topical sections on software architecture evaluation, formal approaches to model-driven QoS-handling, modelling QoS in software architectures, software architectures applied, architectural design for QoS, and model-driven software reliability estimation. The 6 papers accepted for SOQUA 2005 - from 17 submissions - mainly focus on quality assurance and on software testing. They are organized in topical sections on test case selection, model-based testing, unit testing, and performance testing.

Beautiful Architecture

Author : Diomidis Spinellis
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596554397
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Book Synopsis Beautiful Architecture by : Diomidis Spinellis

Download or read book Beautiful Architecture written by Diomidis Spinellis and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the ingredients of robust, elegant, flexible, and maintainable software architecture? Beautiful Architecture answers this question through a collection of intriguing essays from more than a dozen of today's leading software designers and architects. In each essay, contributors present a notable software architecture, and analyze what makes it innovative and ideal for its purpose. Some of the engineers in this book reveal how they developed a specific project, including decisions they faced and tradeoffs they made. Others take a step back to investigate how certain architectural aspects have influenced computing as a whole. With this book, you'll discover: How Facebook's architecture is the basis for a data-centric application ecosystem The effect of Xen's well-designed architecture on the way operating systems evolve How community processes within the KDE project help software architectures evolve from rough sketches to beautiful systems How creeping featurism has helped GNU Emacs gain unanticipated functionality The magic behind the Jikes RVM self-optimizable, self-hosting runtime Design choices and building blocks that made Tandem the choice platform in high-availability environments for over two decades Differences and similarities between object-oriented and functional architectural views How architectures can affect the software's evolution and the developers' engagement Go behind the scenes to learn what it takes to design elegant software architecture, and how it can shape the way you approach your own projects, with Beautiful Architecture.

Documenting Software Architectures

Author : Paul Clements
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0132488590
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Documenting Software Architectures written by Paul Clements and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software architecture—the conceptual glue that holds every phase of a project together for its many stakeholders—is widely recognized as a critical element in modern software development. Practitioners have increasingly discovered that close attention to a software system’s architecture pays valuable dividends. Without an architecture that is appropriate for the problem being solved, a project will stumble along or, most likely, fail. Even with a superb architecture, if that architecture is not well understood or well communicated the project is unlikely to succeed. Documenting Software Architectures, Second Edition, provides the most complete and current guidance, independent of language or notation, on how to capture an architecture in a commonly understandable form. Drawing on their extensive experience, the authors first help you decide what information to document, and then, with guidelines and examples (in various notations, including UML), show you how to express an architecture so that others can successfully build, use, and maintain a system from it. The book features rules for sound documentation, the goals and strategies of documentation, architectural views and styles, documentation for software interfaces and software behavior, and templates for capturing and organizing information to generate a coherent package. New and improved in this second edition: Coverage of architectural styles such as service-oriented architectures, multi-tier architectures, and data models Guidance for documentation in an Agile development environment Deeper treatment of documentation of rationale, reflecting best industrial practices Improved templates, reflecting years of use and feedback, and more documentation layout options A new, comprehensive example (available online), featuring documentation of a Web-based service-oriented system Reference guides for three important architecture documentation languages: UML, AADL, and SySML

Building Evolutionary Architectures

Author : Neal Ford
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1491986328
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Building Evolutionary Architectures written by Neal Ford and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The software development ecosystem is constantly changing, providing a constant stream of new tools, frameworks, techniques, and paradigms. Over the past few years, incremental developments in core engineering practices for software development have created the foundations for rethinking how architecture changes over time, along with ways to protect important architectural characteristics as it evolves. This practical guide ties those parts together with a new way to think about architecture and time.

Software Architecture for Big Data and the Cloud

Author : Ivan Mistrik
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 0128093382
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Software Architecture for Big Data and the Cloud written by Ivan Mistrik and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software Architecture for Big Data and the Cloud is designed to be a single resource that brings together research on how software architectures can solve the challenges imposed by building big data software systems. The challenges of big data on the software architecture can relate to scale, security, integrity, performance, concurrency, parallelism, and dependability, amongst others. Big data handling requires rethinking architectural solutions to meet functional and non-functional requirements related to volume, variety and velocity. The book's editors have varied and complementary backgrounds in requirements and architecture, specifically in software architectures for cloud and big data, as well as expertise in software engineering for cloud and big data. This book brings together work across different disciplines in software engineering, including work expanded from conference tracks and workshops led by the editors. Discusses systematic and disciplined approaches to building software architectures for cloud and big data with state-of-the-art methods and techniques Presents case studies involving enterprise, business, and government service deployment of big data applications Shares guidance on theory, frameworks, methodologies, and architecture for cloud and big data

Recommended Best Industrial Practice for Software Architecture Evaluation

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Recommended Best Industrial Practice for Software Architecture Evaluation written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 its 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 evaluation. 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."