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A quality-driven systematic approach for architecting distributed software applications

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Tariq Al-Naeem,

Muhammed Ali Babar,

Boualem BenatallahAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '05: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering

Pages 244 - 253

https://doi.org/10.1145/1062455.1062508

Published: 15 May 2005 Publication History

Abstract

Architecting distributed software applications is a complex design activity. It involves making decisions about a number of inter-dependent design choices that relate to a range of design concerns. Each decision requires selecting among a number of alternatives; each of which impacts differently on various quality attributes. Additionally, there are usually a number of stakeholders participating in the decision-making process with different, often conflicting, quality goals, and project constraints, such as cost and schedule. To facilitate the architectural design process, we propose a quantitative quality-driven approach that attempts to find the best possible fit between conflicting stakeholders' quality goals, competing architectural concerns, and project constraints. The approach uses optimization techniques to recommend the optimal candidate architecture. Applicability of the proposed approach is assessed using a real system.

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A quality-driven systematic approach for architecting distributed software applications
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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DOI:10.1145/1062455

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