A systematic review on architecting for software evolvability

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In several approaches goal graphs are used f In several approaches, goal graphs are use Traditional softwaresdevelopment approaches do not address this Documents: Advanced Search Include Citations. Authors: Advanced Search Include Citations. Add To MetaCart. Software architecture evaluation involves evaluating different architecture design alternatives against multiple quality-attributes. These attributes typically have intrinsic conflicts and must be considered simultaneously in order to reach a final design decision.

Abstract - Cited by 12 3 self - Add to MetaCart Software architecture evaluation involves evaluating different architecture design alternatives against multiple quality-attributes. AHP Analytic Hierarchy Process , an important decision making technique, has been leveraged to resolve such conflicts.

AHP can help provide an overall ranking of design alternatives. However it lacks the capability to explicitly identify the exact tradeoffs being made and the relative size of these tradeoffs. Moreover, the ranking produced can be sensitive such that the smallest change in intermediate priority weights can alter the final order of design alternatives. In this paper, we propose several in-depth analysis techniques applicable to AHP to identify critical tradeoffs and sensitive points in the decision process.

We apply our method to an example of a real-world distributed architecture presented in the literature. These expose critical decisions which are otherwise too subtle to be detected in standard AHP results.

Kerkow, A. A Systematic Review on Architecting for Software Evolvability Abstract: For long-lived systems, there is a need to address evolvability i. In this paper, we undertake a systematic review to obtain an overview of the existing studies in promoting software evolvability at architectural level. The search strategy identified 58 studies that were catalogued as primary studies for this review after using multi-step selection process.

The studies are classified into five main categories of themes, including techniques that support quality considerations during software architecture design, architectural quality evaluation, economic valuation, architectural knowledge management and modeling techniques.