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Experiences in assessing product family software architecture for evolution
Abstract
Software architecture assessments are a means to detect architectural problems before the bulk of development work is done. They facilitate planning of improvement activities early in the lifecycle and allow limiting the changes on any existing software. This is particularly beneficial when the architecture has been planned to (or already does) support a whole product family, or a set of products that share common requirements, architecture, components or code. As the family requirements evolve and new products are added, the need to assess the evolvability of the existing architecture is vital. I illustrate two assessment case studies I have recently worked on in the mobile telephone software domain: the Symbian operating system platform and the network resource access control software system. The former assessment has been carried out as a task within the European project ESAPS, while the latter has been performed solely by Nokia. By means of simple experimental data, I show evidence of the usefulness of architectural assessment as rated by the participating stakeholders. Both assessments have led to the identification of previously unknown architectural defects, and to the consequent planning of improvement initiatives. In both cases, stakeholders noted that a number of side benefits, including improvement of communication and architectural documentation, were also of considerable importance. I illustrate the lessons we have learned, and outline suggestions for future research and experimentation.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Maccari, A.
- Affiliations
- Nokia (Finland) (FI)
- Corresponding author
- Maccari, Alessandro
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Software engineering - ICSE '02
- Publisher
- ACM Press
- Published
- 2002
- Pages
- 585
- ISSN
- 0270-5257 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4245697556
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2012: 1
- Type
- conference abstract
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Software › Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Management of Technology and Innovation › Product Development and Customization
- Keywords
- software architecture evaluation, software evolvability, stakeholder evaluation
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