Paper Info
Title
An industrial case study on quality impact prediction for evolving service-oriented software
Abstract
Systematic decision support for architectural design decisions is a major concern for software architects of evolving service-oriented systems. In practice, architects often analyse the expected performance and reliability of design alternatives based on prototypes or former experience. Model-driven prediction methods claim to uncover the tradeoffs between different alternatives quantitatively while being more cost-effective and less error-prone. However, they often suffer from weak tool support and focus on single quality attributes. Furthermore, there is limited evidence on their effectiveness based on documented industrial case studies. Thus, we have applied a novel, model-driven prediction method called Q-ImPrESS on a large-scale process control system consisting of several million lines of code from the automation domain to evaluate its evolution scenarios. This paper reports our experiences with the method and lessons learned. Benefits of Q-ImPrESS are the good architectural decision support and comprehensive tool framework, while one drawback is the time-consuming data collection.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/1985793.1985902
Software Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
program testing,service-oriented architecture,Q-ImPrESS,architectural design decisions,model-driven prediction methods,quality impact prediction,service-oriented software,systematic decision support,case study,dtmc,industrial software,lqn,palladio,performance prediction,reliability prediction,reverse engineering,service-oriented software,trade-off analysis
Drawback,Data collection,Software engineering,Systems engineering,Unified Modeling Language,Computer science,Decision support system,Reverse engineering,Automation,Service-oriented architecture,Source lines of code
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0270-5257 E-ISBN : 978-1-4503-0445-0
978-1-4503-0445-0
12
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.65
19
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Heiko Koziolek1181.13
Schlich, B.2120.65
Bilich, C.3120.65
Roland Weiss4728.98