Title
Extending ATAM to assess product line architecture
Abstract
Software architecture is a core asset for any organization that develops software-intensive systems. Unsuitable architecture can precipitate disaster because the architecture determines the structure of the project. To prevent this, software architecture must be evaluated. The current evaluation methods, however, focus on single product architecture, and not product line architectures and they hardly consider the characteristics of the product lines, such as the variation points. This paper describes the extension of a scenario-based analysis technique for software product architecture-called EATAM, which not only analyzes the variation points of the quality attribute using feature modeling but also creates variability scenarios for the derivation of the variation points using the extended PLUC tag approach. This is a method that aims to consider the tradeoffs in the variability scenarios of the software product family architecture. The method has been validated through a case study involving microwave oven software product line in the appliance domain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/CIT.2008.4594775
CIT
Keywords
Field
DocType
extended architecture tradeoff analysis method,extended pluc tag approach,scenario-based analysis technique,product life cycle management,product line architecture assessment,software-intensive systems,software architecture,software architecture evaluation,microwave oven software product line,software product family architecture,appliance domain,business,computer architecture,product design,software quality,security
Space-based architecture,Software architecture description,Computer science,Multilayered architecture,Architecture tradeoff analysis method,Real-time computing,Feature model,Software product line,Reference architecture,Software architecture,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-2358-3
8
0.55
References 
Authors
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Taeho Kim193.27
In-Young Ko228136.83
Sungwon Kang340449.55
Danhyung Lee414414.96