Quality of Software Architectures : Second International Conference on Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2006, Västeras, Schweden, June 27-29, 2006, Revised Papers / edited by Christine Hofmeister, Ivica Crnkovic, Ralf H. Reussner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hofmeister, Christine, editor.

Crnkovic, Ivica, editor.

Reussner, Ralf H., editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Computer Science (Springer-11645)

LNCS sublibrary. Programming and software engineering ; SL 2, 4214.

Programming and Software Engineering ; 4214

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Software engineering.

Computer system failures.

Computer logic.

Computer networks.

Computers and civilization.

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.

System Performance and Evaluation.

Software Engineering.

Logics and Meanings of Programs.

Computer Communication Networks.

Computers and Society.

Local Subjects:

Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.

System Performance and Evaluation.

Software Engineering.

Logics and Meanings of Programs.

Computer Communication Networks.

Computers and Society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 218 pages).

Edition:

First edition 2006.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006.

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Summary:

Although the quality of a system's software architecture is one of the critical factors in its overall quality, the architecture is simply a means to an end, the end being the implemented system. Thus the ultimate measure of the quality of the software architecture lies in the implemented system, in how well it satis?es the system and project requirements and constraints and whether it can be maintained and evolved successfully. In order to treat design as a science rather thananart,weneedtobeabletoaddressthequalityofthesoftwarearchitecture directly, not simply as it is re?ected in the implemented system. Therefore, QoSA is concerned with software architecture quality directly by addressing the problems of: - Designing software architectures of good quality - De?ning, measuring, evaluating architecture quality - Managing architecture quality, tying it upstream to requirements and do- stream to implementation, and preserving architecture quality throughout the lifetime of the system Cross-cutting these problems is the question of the nature of software archit- ture. Software architecture organizes a system, partitioning it into elements and de?ning relationships among the elements. For this we often use multiple views, each with a di?erent organizing principle.

Contents:

Abstracts of the Keynotes

Expanding the Scope of Software Product Families: Problems and Alternative Approaches

Composing with Style - Components Meet Architecture

Abstracts of the Tutorials

Documentation Principles and Practices That You Can Live with

Model-Based Software Development with Eclipse

Software Architecture Analysis and Evaluation

Architecture Evaluation: Selecting Alternatives

MEMS: A Method for Evaluating Middleware Architectures

Evaluating Alternative COTS Assemblies from Imperfect Component Information

Managing and Applying Architectural Knowledge

Building Up and Reasoning About Architectural Knowledge

Managing Architectural Design Decisions for Safety-Critical Software Systems

Architectural Evaluation: Performance Prediction

Runtime Prediction of Queued Behaviour

Model Transformation in Software Performance Engineering

Processes for Supporting Architecture Quality

Traveling Architects - A New Way of Herding Cats

A Practical Architecture-Centric Analysis Process

Models for Architecture Evaluation

Embedded Systems Architecture: Evaluation and Analysis

Parameter Dependent Performance Specifications of Software Components

Architectural Evaluation

Applying the ATAM to an Architecture for Decentralized Control of a Transportation System

Towards an Integration of Standard Component-Based Safety Evaluation Techniques with SaveCCM.

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Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-540-48820-0

9783540488200

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