A quality-driven systematic approach for architecting distributed software applications

  • Authors:

  • Tariq Al-Naeem;Ian Gorton;Muhammed Ali Babar;Fethi Rabhi;Boualem Benatallah

  • Affiliations:

  • University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;National ICT Australia Ltd., Sydney, Australia;University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and National ICT Australia Ltd., Sydney, Australia;University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Architecting distributed software applications is a complex design activity. It involves making decisions about a number of inter-dependent design choices that relate to a range of design concerns. Each decision requires selecting among a number of alternatives; each of which impacts differently on various quality attributes. Additionally, there are usually a number of stakeholders participating in the decision-making process with different, often conflicting, quality goals, and project constraints, such as cost and schedule. To facilitate the architectural design process, we propose a quantitative quality-driven approach that attempts to find the best possible fit between conflicting stakeholders' quality goals, competing architectural concerns, and project constraints. The approach uses optimization techniques to recommend the optimal candidate architecture. Applicability of the proposed approach is assessed using a real system.