Title
Towards quantitative metrics for architecture models
Abstract
Software architectures and their representations in models are instrumental in achieving sustainability and the fulfillment of requirements. In this context, sustainability encompasses cost efficient maintainability and evolvability, which are central concerns for long living software systems. Hence, it is of great importance to support an architect in addressing these concerns when designing and evolving architectures. However, there is no framework available in which a designed architecture can be evaluated against these important quality attributes. In this paper, we address this challenge by proposing seven metrics which characterize the completeness, consistency, correctness and clarity of the documentation. These seven metrics should enable an architect to efficiently identify issues in an architecture model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2578128.2578226
WICSA Companion
Keywords
Field
DocType
central concern,long living software system,sustainability encompasses,important quality attribute,software architecture,great importance,efficient maintainability,architecture model,towards quantitative metrics,completeness,sustainability,correctness,evolvability,consistency
Architecture,Software engineering,Systems engineering,Software architecture description,Computer science,Correctness,Software system,Reference architecture,Software architecture,Documentation,Maintainability
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stephan Sehestedt1666.60
Chih-Hong Cheng213417.63
Eric Bouwers3959.51