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.
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.
Download or read book A Philosophy of Software Design written by John Ousterhout and published by Yaknyam Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Design It written by Michael Keeling and published by Pragmatic Bookshelf. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't engineer by coincidence-design it like you mean it! Filled with practical techniques, Design It! is the perfect introduction to software architecture for programmers who are ready to grow their design skills. Lead your team as a software architect, ask the right stakeholders the right questions, explore design options, and help your team implement a system that promotes the right -ilities. Share your design decisions, facilitate collaborative design workshops that are fast, effective, and fun-and develop more awesome software! With dozens of design methods, examples, and practical know-how, Design It! shows you how to become a software architect. Walk through the core concepts every architect must know, discover how to apply them, and learn a variety of skills that will make you a better programmer, leader, and designer. Uncover the big ideas behind software architecture and gain confidence working on projects big and small. Plan, design, implement, and evaluate software architectures and collaborate with your team, stakeholders, and other architects. Identify the right stakeholders and understand their needs, dig for architecturally significant requirements, write amazing quality attribute scenarios, and make confident decisions. Choose technologies based on their architectural impact, facilitate architecture-centric design workshops, and evaluate architectures using lightweight, effective methods. Write lean architecture descriptions people love to read. Run an architecture design studio, implement the architecture you've designed, and grow your team's architectural knowledge. Good design requires good communication. Talk about your software architecture with stakeholders using whiteboards, documents, and code, and apply architecture-focused design methods in your day-to-day practice. Hands-on exercises, real-world scenarios, and practical team-based decision-making tools will get everyone on board and give you the experience you need to become a confident software architect.
Download or read book Development and Evolution of Software Architectures for Product Families written by Frank van der Linden and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-08-06 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book originates from a workshop organised by ESPRIT project 20 477, ARES in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 1998. ARES is an acronym for Architectural Reasoning for Embedded Systems. Within this project we investigate techniques to deal with problems of software architecture of families of embedded systems. It is the second workshop organised by this project. Its predecessor was held in Las Navas de Marques, Spain, November 1996. The proceedings of the first workshop are only available in electronic format at "http://www.dit.upm.es/~ares/". The second workshop succeeded, even more than the first one, in gathering many of the most prominent people working in the area of software architecture for product families or product lines. This second workshop consisted of six sessions. The first session was meant to report the ARES results, according to the topics of the next five sessions. The remaining sessions dealt with different aspects of software architecture, focussed on applications for product families or product lines. Because there will be a separate book covering all ARES results, the first session is not included in this book. The workshop was chaired by Henk Obbink from Philips Research and Paul Clements from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. They prepared and presented an overall conclusion at the end of the workshop. This conclusion was used in the introduction to this book.
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.
Download or read book Agile Software Architecture written by Michael Stal and published by Elsevier Inc. Chapters. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chapter describes how to systematically prevent software architecture erosion by applying refactoring techniques. Software architecture modifications are common rather than the exception in software development. Modifications come in different flavors, such as redefining or adding requirements, changing infrastructure and technology, or causing changes by bugs and incorrect decisions. But no matter where these changes originate, they need special attention from software architects. Otherwise, if software architects merely focus on adding new features—(changes or extensions that by themselves might not be adequate), design erosion will be the final result. In a systematic approach, software architects evaluate the existing software design before adding new artifacts or changing existing ones. Whenever they identify architecture problems, they immediately resolve architectural issues, thus assuring high quality and sustainability. Software architecture refactoring enables such iterative architecture improvement. It consists of indentifying problems, applying the right refactorings, and testing the results. Architecture refactoring is often combined with code refactoring activities to add the best value. Refactoring patterns offer proven solutions for recurring architectural problems, hence providing a toolset to software engineers.
Download or read book Evaluation of dynamic properties of software architectures using software architecture execution written by James Carrell Holt and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Software Architecture written by Henry Muccini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the tracks and workshops which complemented the 14th European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2020, held in L'Aquila, Italy*, in September 2020. The 30 full papers and 9 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. Papers presented were accepted into the following tracks and workshops: ECSA 2020 Doctoral Symposium track; ECSA 2020 Tool Demos track; ECSA 2020 Gender Diversity in Software Architecture &Software Engineering track; CASA - 3rd International Workshop on Context-aware, Autonomous and Smart Architecture; CSE/QUDOS - Joint Workshop on Continuous Software Engineering and Quality-Aware DevOps; DETECT - 3rd International Workshop on Modeling, Verication and Testing of Dependable Critical Systems; FAACS-MDE4SA - Joint Workshop on Formal Approaches for Advanced Computing Systems and Model-Driven Engineering for Software Architecture; IoT-ASAP - 4th International Workshop on Engineering IoT Systems: Architectures, Services, Applications, and Platforms; SASI4 - 2nd Workshop on Systems, Architectures, and Solutions for Industry 4.0; WASA - 6th International Workshop on Automotive System/Software Architecture. *The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Download or read book Software Architecture written by Carlos E. Cuesta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2018, held in Madrid, Spain, in September 2018. The 17 full papers presented together with 7 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. They are organized in topical sections as follows: Self-Adaptive Architectures, IoT Architectures, Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems, Microservices Architectures, Service-Oriented Architectures, Architectural Design Decisions, Software Architecture in Practice.
Download or read book Reference Architectures for Critical Domains written by Elisa Yumi Nakagawa and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents reference architecture as a key blueprint to develop and evolve critical software-intensive systems, emphasizing both the state of the art in research and successful industrial cases. After outlining the theoretical foundations of reference architecture and presenting an overview of a number of reference architectures proposed over the recent years, this book dives into a set of critical application domains, including defense, health, automotive, avionics, and Industry 4.0, highlighting the respective most relevant reference architectures that have impacted these domains, the experience and lessons learned, insights gained, benefits and drawbacks, and factors that make these architectures sustainable. The book finishes with the most relevant directions for future advances in reference architectures. The content of this book is useful for researchers and advanced professionals in industry in the areas of computing and engineering, as well as in critical application domains that increasingly require interconnected, large, and complex software-intensive systems.
Download or read book Product Focused Software Process Improvement written by Michael Felderer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, PROFES 2017, held in Innsbruck, Austria, in November/December 2017. The 17 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers, 21 workshop papers. 3 posters and tool demonstrations papers, and 4 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on : Agile software Development; Data science and analytics; Software engineering processes and frameworks; Industry relevant qualitative research; User and value centric approaches; Software startups; Serum; Software testing.
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:
Download or read book Project Risk Management written by Kurt J. Engemann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing risk is essential for every organization. However, significant opportunities may be lost by concentrating on the negative aspects of risk without bearing in mind the positive attributes. The objective of Project Risk Management: Managing Software Development Risk is to provide a distinct approach to a broad range of risks and rewards associated with the design, development, implementation and deployment of software systems. The traditional perspective of software development risk is to view risk as a negative characteristic associated with the impact of potential threats. The perspective of this book is to explore a more discerning view of software development risks, including the positive aspects of risk associated with potential beneficial opportunities. A balanced approach requires that software project managers approach negative risks with a view to reduce the likelihood and impact on a software project, and approach positive risks with a view to increase the likelihood of exploiting opportunities. Project Risk Management: Managing Software Development Risk explores software development risk both from a technological and business perspective. Issues regarding strategies for software development are discussed and topics including risks related to technical performance, outsourcing, cybersecurity, scheduling, quality, costs, opportunities and competition are presented. Bringing together concepts across the broad spectrum of software engineering with a project management perspective, this volume represents both a professional and scholarly perspective on the topic.
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."
Download or read book Automated Improvement of Software Architecture Models for Performance and Other Quality Attributes written by Koziolek, Anne and published by KIT Scientific Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quality attributes, such as performance or reliability, are crucial for the success of a software system and largely influenced by the software architecture. Their quantitative prediction supports systematic, goal-oriented software design and forms a base of an engineering approach to software design. This thesis proposes a method and tool to automatically improve component-based software architecture (CBA) models based on such quantitative quality prediction techniques.
Download or read book Intelligent Computing written by Kohei Arai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 1405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, gathering the Proceedings of the 2018 Computing Conference, offers a remarkable collection of chapters covering a wide range of topics in intelligent systems, computing and their real-world applications. The Conference attracted a total of 568 submissions from pioneering researchers, scientists, industrial engineers, and students from all around the world. These submissions underwent a double-blind peer review process. Of those 568 submissions, 192 submissions (including 14 poster papers) were selected for inclusion in these proceedings. Despite computer science’s comparatively brief history as a formal academic discipline, it has made a number of fundamental contributions to science and society—in fact, along with electronics, it is a founding science of the current epoch of human history (‘the Information Age’) and a main driver of the Information Revolution. The goal of this conference is to provide a platform for researchers to present fundamental contributions, and to be a premier venue for academic and industry practitioners to share new ideas and development experiences. This book collects state of the art chapters on all aspects of Computer Science, from classical to intelligent. It covers both the theory and applications of the latest computer technologies and methodologies. Providing the state of the art in intelligent methods and techniques for solving real-world problems, along with a vision of future research, the book will be interesting and valuable for a broad readership.
