DoSAM – domain-specific software architecture comparison model

  • Authors:
  • Klaus Bergner;Andreas Rausch;Marc Sihling;Thomas Ternité

  • Affiliations:
  • 4Soft GmbH, Munich, Germany;Fachbereich Informatik, Arbeitsgruppe Softwarearchitektur, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany;4Soft GmbH, Munich, Germany;Fachbereich Informatik, Arbeitsgruppe Softwarearchitektur, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

  • Venue:
  • QoSA'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality, and Proceedings of the Second International conference on Software Quality
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

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.