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The architecture of an IT system is of crucial importance for its success. In order to assess architecture’s fitness, a number of standardized architecture evaluation methods have been proposed. Most of them are intended for the evaluation of a single architecture at a certain point in time. Furthermore, the results are often highly dependent on the person performing the evaluation. Thus, such methods cannot be used to compare and rate different architectures. The DoSAM method instead provides an evaluation framework for comparing different software architectures in a certain domain. After adapting this framework to the application domain at hand once, it can then be used repeatedly for all future evaluations in a methodical and reproducible way.
This work originates from a framework of research studies related to Modularity of Naval Ships and funded by the German Procurement Agency Bundesamt für Wehrtechnik und Beschaffung in Koblenz.
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Bergner, K., Rausch, A., Sihling, M., Ternité, T. (2005). DoSAM – Domain-Specific Software Architecture Comparison Model. In: Reussner, R., Mayer, J., Stafford, J.A., Overhage, S., Becker, S., Schroeder, P.J. (eds) Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality. QoSA SOQUA 2005 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3712. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11558569_3
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