A Comparison of Requirements Specification Methods from a Software Architecture Perspective

In this report, five methods for the elicitation and expression of requirements are evaluated with respect to their ability to capture architecturally significant requirements.

A Comparison of Requirements Specification Methods from a Software Architecture Perspective

Presented: April 2006

A Design Space and Design Rules for User Interface Software Architecture

Design Space and Design Rules for User Interface Software Architecture, A

A Federation Object Model (FOM) Flexible Federate Framework

The concept of a framework as a reusable software component has become a state-of-the-practice technique in software companies. A number of frameworks based on High Level Architecture (HLA) are available commercially, and many companies have developed their own frameworks for internal applications. Using a framework reduces development time and allows software architects and programmers to focus on the unique aspects of the simulation. However, the challenge of developing a reusable component to support dynamic reconfigurability remains. Indeed, existing frameworks use a static object-model representation that requires full knowledge of object model components when a federate is built (at compile-time). This report describes an approach to designing a domain framework that encapsulates expertise in developing an HLA federate by hiding runtime infrastructure (RTI) internal operations from the developer. This approach uses a JavaTM virtual machine and a parser to map object representations of federation object model (FOM) elements dynamically.

A Life-Cycle View of Architecture Analysis and Design Methods

This report examines these methods and activities to understand their commonalities and relationships to life-cycle changes, and proposes a means of tailoring the activities so that they can fit more easily into existing life-cycle models.

A Practical Example of Applying Attribute-Driven Design (ADD), Version 2.0

A Practical Example of Applying Attribute-Driven Design (ADD), Version 2.0

A Proactive Means for Incorporating a Software Architecture Evaluation in a DoD System Acquisition

This technical note provides guidance on how to contractually incorporate architecture evaluations in an acquisition. A sample Software Architecture Evaluation Plan is provided that can be easily customized by a DoD program office for use in its own RFP and contracts.

A Software Architecture for Dependable and Evolvable Industrial Computing Systems

Software Architecture for Dependable and Evolvable Industrial Computing Systems, A

A Workshop on Architecture Competence

This report summarizes a workshop on architecture competence that was held at the SEI in June 2008, where practitioners discussed key issues in assessing architecture competence in organizations.

ATAM and Collaboration at the Enterprise Level

Presented: April 2006

ATAM: Method for Architecture Evaluation

ATAM: Method for Architecture Evaluation

Achieving Product Qualities Through Software Architecture Practices

Presented: March 2004

Achieving Usability Through Software Architecture

Achieving Usability Through Software Architecture

Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs

Active Reviews for Intermediate Designs

Aligning Business Models, Business Architectures, and IT Architectures

Aligning Business Models, Business Architectures, and IT Architectures

Aligning Organizational Activities with Architectural Design

A presentation with audio

An Approach to Software Architecture Analysis for Evolution and Reusability

An Approach to Software Architecture Analysis for Evolution and Reusability

An Architectural Analysis Case Study:Internet Information Systems

An Architectural Analysis Case Study:Internet Information Systems

An Architectural Approach to Software Cost Modeling

An Architectural Approach to Software Cost Modeling

An Architecture Journey

SATURN 2007 keynote by Jeromy Carrière

An Evaluation Theory Perspective of the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM)

An Evaluation Theory Perspective of the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM)

An Experience Report on Using UML 2.0 to Document Software Architectures

Presented: April 2005

An Introduction to Software Architecture

An Introduction to Software Architecture

Analyzing Enterprise JavaBeans Systems Using Quality Attribute Design Primitives

Analyzing Enterprise JavaBeans Systems Using Quality Attribute Design Primitives

Analyzing Quality Attributes

Analyzing Quality Attributes

Applicability of General Scenarios to the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method

Applicability of General Scenarios to the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method

Application of the Architecture-Based Design Method to the Electronic House, An

An Application of the Architecture-Based Design Method to the Electronic House

Applying SEI Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) as Part of Formal Software Architecture Review

presented as part of SATURN 2008, May 2008

ArchE – An Architecture Design Assistant

presented as part of the SEI Software Architecture Workshop for Educators, August 2007

ArchE – An Architecture Design Assistant

The Fourth SEI Software Architecture Workshop for Educators was held at the Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh, PA on July 31- August 2, 2007.

ArchE—the Architecture Expert

ArchE—the Architecture Expert

Architecting Security In

Presented: May 2007

Architectural Design of an Industrial AGV Transportation System with a Multiagent System Approach

Presented: April 2006

Architectural Evaluation of Collaborative Agent-Based Systems

Architectural Evaluation of Collaborative Agent-Based Systems

Architectural Refinement for the Design of Survivable Systems

Architectural Refinement for the Design of Survivable Systems

Architectural Tactics

Architectural Tactics

Architecture Analysis Boeing’s Experiences using the SEI ATAM and QAW Processes

Presented: April 2006

Architecture Analysis Overview and Observations

Architecture Analysis Overview and Observations by Don O'Connell, Software/Systems Architect, The Boeing Company. Presented at Saturn 2006.

Architecture Business Cycle Revisited: A Business Goals Taxonomy to Support Architecture Design and Analysis, The

The Architecture Business Cycle Revisited: A Business Goals Taxonomy to Support Architecture Design and Analysis

Architecture Centric Design Method

Presented: April 2006

Architecture Competence: What Is It? How Do We Measure It?

Architecture Competence: What Is It? How Do We Measure It?

Architecture Competency

SATURN 2006 Working Session.
This summary is meant to convey preliminary ideas for the purpose of getting feedback. It does not necessarily represent the consensus of the members of the session.

Architecture Competency SATURN 2006

Presented: April 2006

Architecture Curve, New Formatted SEI ATAM Report Shaped in a Single Graph

presented as part of SATURN 2008, May 2008

Architecture Empowerment - A Quality Attribute of Software Architecture Realms to Build Empowered Organizations

presented as part of SATURN 2008, May 2008

Architecture Evolution Working Session

presentation made at the Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop, April 25-26, 2006, Pittsburgh, PA

Architecture Evolution Working Session SATURN 2006

Presented: April 2006

Architecture From a Manager’s Perspective

presented at SATURN 2008, April-May 2008

Architecture Mechanisms

Architecture Mechanisms

Architecture Reconstruction Guidelines

Architecture Reconstruction Guidelines

Architecture Reconstruction Guidelines, Third Edition

Architecture Reconstruction Guidelines, Third Edition

Architecture Reconstruction of J2EE Applications: Generating Views from the Module Viewtype

Architecture Reconstruction of J2EE Applications: Generating Views from the Module Viewtype

Architecture Tradeoff Analyses of C4ISR Products

Architecture Tradeoff Analyses of C4ISR Products

Architecture and Design

guest lecture for COMP 180: Software Engineering, Tufts University, Fall 2006

Architecture from a Manager’s Perspective (SATURN 2008)

presented at SATURN 2008, April-May 2008

Architecture-Based Development

Architecture-Based Development

Architecture-Centric Software Project Management: A Practical Guide

The book addresses each cornerstone of effective project management -- planning, organizing, implementing, and measuring.

Architectures for Adaptive Mobile Systems

Architectures for Adaptive Mobile Systems

Are Software Architects Like Building Architects?

Are Software Architects Like Building Architects?

Assessing Architectural Complexity

Assessing Architectural Complexity

Attribute-Based Architectural Styles

Attribute-Based Architectural Styles

Attribute-Based Architectural Styles

Attribute-Based Architectural Styles

Attribute-Driven Design (ADD), Version 2.0

Attribute-Driven Design (ADD), Version 2.0

Automated Requirements Processing Overview

presentation made at the 2007 SATURN Workshop

Autonomic Computing

Autonomic Computing

Best Practices in Software Architecture

presentation given by Paul Clements, July 26, 2006

Best Practices in Software Architecture

Best Practices in Software Architecture, by
Paul Clements

Best of Three Worlds: Combining QAW, MDRE, and GA, The

Presented: April 2006

Building a Software Architecture Community

SATURN 2006 Working Session. This summary is meant to convey preliminary ideas for the purpose of getting feedback. It does not necessarily
represent the consensus of the members of the session.

Building a Software Architecture Community (SATURN 2006)

Building a Software Architecture Community (SATURN 2006)

Case Study in Assessing the Maintainability of Large, Software-Intensive Systems, A

presented at the International Symposium and Workshop on Systems Engineering of Computer Based Systems, March 1995, Tucson

This paper presents a case study in assessing the maintainability of a large, software intensive system. The techniques we used are described, and their strengths and weaknesses discussed.

Categorizing Business Goals for Software Architectures

Categorizing Business Goals for Software Architectures

Challenges and Observations of Applying the SEI ATAM to a Software Testing Automation Solution

presented as part of SATURN 2008, May 2008

Characteristics of Higher Level Languages for Software Architecture

Characteristics of Higher Level Languages for Software Architecture

Classifying Architectural Elements as a Foundation for Mechanism Matching

Classifying Architectural Elements as a Foundation for Mechanism Matching

Coming Attractions in Software Architecture

Coming Attractions in Software Architecture

Common ATAM Errors

Presented: May 2007

Comparing the SEI's Views and Beyond Approach for Documenting Software Architectures with ANSI-IEEE 1471-2000

Comparing the SEI's Views and Beyond Approach for Documenting Software Architectures with ANSI-IEEE 1471-2000

Components of Software Architecture Design and Analysis, The

The Components of Software Architecture Design and Analysis

Cost-Benefit Analysis Method

Cost-Benefit Analysis Method

Creating and Using Software Architecture Documentation Using Web-Based Tool Support

Creating and Using Software Architecture Documentation Using Web-Based Tool Support

Current SAT Work in Architecture Evolution

Presented: April 2008

Current SEI SAT Initiative Technology Investigations

presented as part of SATURN 2008, May 2008

Data Model as an Architectural View

The data model for a given system can be seen as an architectural view; for example, a view of a database structure that shows data entities and their relationships. Among other practical purposes, the data model would serve as the blueprint for the physical database, help implementation of the data access layer of the system, and have a strong impact on performance and modifiability.

Debugging Software Architectures

Presented: April 2008

Defining Composite Critical Scenarios for the Development of Large-Scale System Architecture Using an SEI ADD-Based Framework

This presentation will discuss how SEI Attribute-Driven Design (ADD) was employed to develop a framework that was employed as a basis to develop the software architecture of a complex large-scale control system in a multinational organization.

Defining the Terms Architecture, Design, and Implementation

Defining the Terms Architecture, Design, and Implementation

Definition and Evaluation of Geographic Information System Architecture Using ADD and ATAM

Presented: April 2006

Definition and Evaluation of Geographic Information System Architecture Using ADD and ATAM (SATURN 2006)

Presented: April 2006

Deriving Architectural Tactics: A Step Toward Methodical Architectural Design

Deriving Architectural Tactics: A Step Toward Methodical Architectural Design

Design and Analysis Principles for Software Architecture

Presented: January 2004

Discovering Architectures from Running Systems: Lessons Learned

Discovering Architectures from Running Systems: Lessons Learned

DoD Architecture Framework and Software Architecture Workshop Report

DoD Architecture Framework and Software Architecture Workshop Report

DoD Experience with the C4ISR Architecture Framework

DoD Experience with the C4ISR Architecture Framework

Documenting Component and Connector Views with UML 2.0

Documenting Component and Connector Views with UML 2.0

Documenting Software Architecture: Documenting Behavior

Documenting Software Architecture: Documenting Behavior

Documenting Software Architecture: Documenting Interfaces

Documenting Software Architecture: Documenting Interfaces

Documenting Software Architectures

Documenting Software Architectures

Documenting Software Architectures Podcast

Paul Clements talks about best practices for communicating (documenting) software architectures and summarizes key points from the book Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond and the related two-day course, Documenting Software Architectures.

Documenting Software Architectures in an Agile World

Documenting Software Architectures in an Agile World

Documenting Software Architectures: Organization of Documentation Package

Documenting Software Architectures: Organization of Documentation Package

Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond

The SEI has produced an approach for documenting software architectures known as the "Views and Beyond" approach. It allows software architects to produce only the documentation that has a demonstrated community of consumers, while producing high-quality documentation that will serve the project throughout its entire lifecycle.

Duties, Skills, and Knowledge of Software Architects, The

The Duties, Skills, and Knowledge of Software Architects

Economic Modeling of Software Architectures

Economic Modeling of Software Architectures

Elements of a Usability Reasoning Framework

Elements of a Usability Reasoning Framework

Evaluating Distributed Systems Architectures for Fault-Tolerant Applications

presented as part of SATURN 2008, May 2008

Evaluating Service-Oriented Architectures

The emergence of service-oriented architecture (SOA) as an approach for integrating applications that expose services presents many new challenges to organizations resulting in significant risks to their business. Particularly important among those risks are failures to effectively address quality attribute requirements such as performance, availability, security, and modifiability. Because the risk and impact of SOA are distributed and pervasive across applications, it is critical to perform an architecture evaluation early in the software life cycle. This report contains technical information about SOA design considerations and tradeoffs that can help the architecture evaluator to identify and mitigate risks in a timely and effective manner. The report provides an overview of SOA, outlines key architecture approaches and their effect on quality attributes, establishes an organized collection of design-related questions that an architecture evaluator may use to analyze the ability of the architecture to meet quality requirements, and provides a brief sample evaluation.

Evaluating a Service-Oriented Architecture

Presented: May 2007

Evolution of Quality Attribute Workshops as an Architecture-Evaluation Technique, The

The Evolution of Quality Attribute Workshops as an Architecture-Evaluation Technique

Experience Using the Web-Based Tool Wiki for Architecture Documentation

Experience Using the Web-Based Tool Wiki for Architecture Documentation

Experience with a Course on Architectures for Software Systems Part I: Course Description

Experience with a Course on Architectures for Software Systems Part I: Course Description

Experience with a Course on Architectures for Software Systems, Part II: Educational Materials

Experience with a Course on Architectures for Software Systems, Part II: Educational Materials

Experiences in Architecture Reconstruction at Nokia

Experiences in Architecture Reconstruction at Nokia

Exploring Enterprise, System of Systems, and System and Software Architectures

In this webinar, we  present our findings from a U.S. Army workshop on architecture that was held at the SEI in September of 2008, under the auspices of the Army Strategic Software Improvement Program (ASSIP).

Features of Architecture Description Languages

Features of Architecture Description Languages

Formal Methods in Describing Architectures

Formal Methods in Describing Architectures

From Domain Models to Architectures

presentation given at the Workshop on Software Architecture, USC Center for Software Engineering, Los Angeles, 1994

From Subroutines to Subsystems: Component-Based Software Development

From Subroutines to Subsystems: Component-Based Software Development

Future Directions of the Software Architecture Technology Initiative

Presented: April 2006

Future Trends of Software Technology and Applications: Software Architecture

Presented: January 2006

Gadfly: An Approach to Architectural-Level System Comprehension, The

white paper presented at the Fourth IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension, Berlin, March 1996

Global Software Development Working Session

SATURN 2006 Working Session.
This summary is meant to convey preliminary ideas for
the purpose of getting feedback. It does not necessarily
represent the consensus of the members of the session.

Global Software Development Working Session (SATURN 2006)

Presented: April 2006

How the QAW Helped our Enterprise Architecture Effort

presentation from the 2007 SATURN Workshop

Identifying and Documenting Primary Concerns in Industrial Software Systems

presented as part of SATURN 2008, May 2008

Illuminating the Fundamental Contributors to Software Architecture Quality

Illuminating the Fundamental Contributors to Software Architecture Quality

Impact of Army Architecture Evaluations

This report details the results of a study of 12 U.S. Army programs that used the ATAM or QAW as part of the Army Strategic Software Improvement Program (ASSIP) effort.

Improving Software Architecture Competence

Improving Software Architecture Competence by Paul Clements, International Association of Software Architects (IASA), March 2007.

Improving Software Architecture Competence

Presented: March 2007

Inexpensive ATAM-Peer Review Detects and Fixes Architecture Problems Early

Presented: April 2008

Integrated City Operation Center: An Architecture Case Study with ADD & Data Flow Analysis

presentation made at the 2007 SATURN Workshop

Integrating Analysis and Design Methods for the Software Life Cycle

Integrating Analysis and Design Methods for the Software Life Cycle

Integrating Architecture Methods: The Case of Extreme Programming

Integrating Architecture Methods: The Case of Extreme Programming

Integrating Architecture Methods: The Case of the ATAM and the CBAM

Integrating Architecture Methods: The Case of the ATAM and the CBAM

Integrating Architecture Methods: The Case of the QAW and the ADD Method

Integrating Architecture Methods: The Case of the QAW and the ADD Method

Integrating Architecture Methods: The Case of the Rational Unified Process

Integrating Architecture Methods: The Case of the Rational Unified Process

Integrating Quality-attribute Reasoning Frameworks in the ArchE Design Assistant

Integrating Quality-attribute Reasoning Frameworks in the ArchE Design Assistant

Integrating Software-Architecture-Centric Methods into Extreme Programming (XP)

Integrating Software-Architecture-Centric Methods into Extreme Programming (XP)

Integrating Software-Architecture-Centric Methods into the Rational Unified Process

Integrating Software-Architecture-Centric Methods into the Rational Unified Process

Integrating the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) with the Cost Benefit Analysis Method (CBAM)

Integrating the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) with the Cost Benefit Analysis Method (CBAM)

Integrating the Quality Attribute Workshop (QAW) and the Attribute-Driven Design (ADD) Method

Integrating the Quality Attribute Workshop (QAW) and the Attribute-Driven Design (ADD) Method

Interactions Among Techniques Addressing Quality Attributes

Interactions Among Techniques Addressing Quality Attributes

Introducing Scenario-based Architecture Reviews

presentation made at the 2007 SATURN Workshop

Leadership and Management in Software Architecture Leadership and Management in Software Architecture

Leadership and Management in Software Architecture Leadership and Management in Software Architecture

Lessons Learned about Software Architecture

Lessons Learned about Software Architecture

Lessons Learned from Deployment and Production Use of Architects’ Workbench - An Architectural Thinking and Modeling Tool

Presented: April 2008

Let’s Teach Architecting High Quality Software

Presented: April 2006

Light-Weight Architecture Trade Off Process Based on ATAM, A

Presented: May 2007

Making Architecture Design Decisions: An Economic Approach

Making Architecture Design Decisions: An Economic Approach

Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures, The

To be successful, every system needs a good architecture and that requires the use of a good architecture engineering method. However, systems vary greatly in size, complexity, criticality, domain, operational dependence on other systems, the technology used and its diversity, requirements volatility, required quality characteristics and attributes, and volatility of technology and component parts.

Methodical Design of Software Architecture Using an Architecture Design Assistant (ArchE)

Presented: April 2005

Mitigating the Risk of Using Service-Oriented Architectures

Mitigating the Risk of Using Service-Oriented Architectures

Models for Evaluating and Improving Architecture Competence

Models for Evaluating and Improving Architecture Competence

Modifiability Tactics

Modifiability Tactics

Negative Impacts of Ignoring Stakeholder Quality Attributes

Presented: May 2007

Neglected Aspects of Software Architecture

SATURN 2007 presentation in which Todd Kaiser delivers the message that software architects sometimes ignore non-technical aspects of software architecture and that results in collateral damage.

On ADLs and Tool Support for Documenting View-Based Architectural Descriptions

presented as part of SATURN 2008, May 2008

On Software Architecture, Agility, Cost and Value

SATURN 2008 keynote by Philippe Kruchten, Professor of Software Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Perils and Joys of Reconstructing Architectures, The

The Perils and Joys of Reconstructing Architectures

Place of Architecture in a Crowdsourced World, The

The Place of Architecture in a Crowdsourced World

Playing Detective: Reconstructing Software Architecture from Available Evidence

Playing Detective: Reconstructing Software Architecture from Available Evidence

Preliminary Design of ArchE: A Software Architecture Design Assistant

Preliminary Design of ArchE: A Software Architecture Design Assistant

Principles for Evaluating the Quality Attributes of a Software Architecture

Principles for Evaluating the Quality Attributes of a Software Architecture

Principles of Architecture Design and Evaluation

Presented: January 2004

Proceedings of the First Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop

Proceedings of the First Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop

Proceedings of the Second Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop

Proceedings of the Second Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop

Product Line Architecture for Army Aviation Diagnostics and Maintenance: Views and Evolution, A

Presented: May 2007

Putting Software Architecture in Its Place - Fitting Software Architecture into the Enterprise Technology Landscape

Presented: April 2008

Quality Attribute Design Primitives

Quality Attribute Design Primitives

Quality Attribute Workshop

Quality Attribute Workshop

Quality Attribute Workshop Participants Handbook

Quality Attribute Workshop Participants Handbook

Quality Attribute Workshops

Quality Attribute Workshops

Quality Attribute Workshops

Quality Attribute Workshops

Quality Attribute Workshops (QAWs), Third Edition

Quality Attribute Workshops (QAWs), Third Edition

Quality Attribute Workshops, 2nd Edition

Quality Attribute Workshops, 2nd Edition

Quality Attributes

Quality Attributes

Quality Attributes and Requirements Traceability

Presented: April 2008

Quality Attributes and Service-Oriented Architectures

Quality Attributes and Service-Oriented Architectures

Quality-Attribute-Based Economic Valuation of Architectural Patterns

Quality-Attribute-Based Economic Valuation of Architectural Patterns

Quantifying the Value of Architecture Design Decisions: Lessons from the Field

Quantifying the Value of Architecture Design Decisions: Lessons from the Field

Raytheon's Architecture Journey

Raytheon's Architecture Journey by Rolf Siegers, Chief Architect, Raytheon GEC. Presented at Saturn 2006.

Raytheon’s Architecture Journey

presentation given at the Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop, April 25-26, 2006, Pittsburgh, PA

Realizing and Refining Architectural Tactics: Availability

Tactics are fundamental elements of software architecture that an architect employs to meet a system's quality requirements. This report describes an updated set of tactics that enable the architect to build availability into a system.

Realizing the Business Value of IT: An Approach for Architecture Evaluation

presented as part of SATURN 2008, May 2008

Reasoning Frameworks

Reasoning Frameworks

Recommended Best Industrial Practice for Software Architecture Evaluation

Recommended Best Industrial Practice for Software Architecture Evaluation

Reconstructing the Architecture Model for a Sustainable Software System

presented as part of SATURN 2008, May 2008

Reducing Uncertainty In Architecture Plans

Presented: April 2008

Report on the Second International Workshop on Development and Evolution of Software Architectures for Product Families

Report on the Second International Workshop on Development and Evolution of Software Architectures for Product Families

Representing Software Architecture

Representing Software Architecture

Requirements for Integrating Software Architecture

presented at the 1998 Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Honolulu HI, October 1998

Rethinking the Software Life Cycle

Rethinking the Software Life Cycle

Risk Themes Discovered Through Architecture Evaluations

Risk Themes Discovered Through Architecture Evaluations

Risk Themes from ATAM Data: Preliminary Results

Presented: May 2006

Risk Themes from ATAM Data: Preliminary Results (SATURN 2006)

Presented: April 2006

SACAM: The Software Architecture Comparison Analysis Method

SACAM: The Software Architecture Comparison Analysis Method

SATURN 2006 Working Session Out-brief Bridging System and Software Architecture

Presented: April 2006

SATURN 2006 Working Session: Strategic Risk Management for Architectures

Presented: April 2006

SATURN SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network

SATURN SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network

SATURN Session Summary: Use of the SEI ATAM in Practice

This presentation reviews the discussion that took place during Session 2: Architecture Evaluation: Experiences in Using the SEI ATAM, that was led by Felix Bachmann on April 30. It will also summarize observations made by both the presenters and attendees during that session.

SATURN: SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network

Presented: April 2005

SEI Architecture Analysis Techniques and When to Use Them

SEI Architecture Analysis Techniques and When to Use Them

SEI Architecture Practices Propel Successful Startup

SEI Architecture Practices Propel Successful Startup

SEI Architecture Techniques Complementary to the RUP

presentation made by Stuart Kerrigan and Richard van Schelven at the Third Annual SATURN Workshop, May 2007

SEI Software Architecture Workshop for Educators

presented as part of the SEI Software Architecture Workshop for Educators, August 2007

SEI Software Architecture Workshop for Educators (Presentation)

The Fourth SEI Software Architecture Workshop for Educators was held at the Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh, PA on July 31- August 2, 2007.

SEI Workshop on Software Architecture Representation, 16-17 January 2001

SEI Workshop on Software Architecture Representation, 16-17 January 2001

Scenario-Based Analysis of Software Architecture

Scenario-Based Analysis of Software Architecture

Software Architectural Transformation

Software Architectural Transformation

Software Architecture Book Provides Practical Guidance about Documentation

Software Architecture Book Provides Practical Guidance about Documentation

Software Architecture Design with ArchE

The goal of our work in software architectures is to understand the mechanics behind creating good architectures and make this knowledge public.

In collaboration with the Bosch Research and Technology Center in Pittsburgh (Bosch-RTC) we addressed the question: Is it possible to codify architectural knowledge in a tool that provides the right information at the right time to the architect? The answer is ArchE.

Software Architecture Documentation in Practice: Documenting Architectural Layers

Software Architecture Documentation in Practice: Documenting Architectural Layers

Software Architecture Evaluation in the DoD Systems Acquisition Context

Software Architecture Evaluation in the DoD Systems Acquisition Context

Software Architecture Evaluation with ATAM in the DoD System Acquisition Context

Software Architecture Evaluation with ATAM in the DoD System Acquisition Context

Software Architecture Evaluation: A Key to System Success

Software Architecture Evaluation: A Key to System Success

Software Architecture Reconstruction: Practice Needs and Current Approaches

Software Architecture Reconstruction: Practice Needs and Current Approaches

Software Architecture Renaissance, The

The Software Architecture Renaissance

Software Architecture Technology Initiative

presentation made by Mark Klein at the Third Annual SATURN Workshop, May 2007

Software Architecture Technology Initiative (SATURN 2008)

presented at SATURN 2008, April-May 2008

Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) 2005 Working Session Notes

Presented: April 2005

Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) 2005 Wrap Up

Presented: April 2005

Software Architecture in DoD Acquisition: A Reference Standard for a Software Architecture Document

Software Architecture in DoD Acquisition: A Reference Standard for a Software Architecture Document

Software Architecture in DoD Acquisition: An Approach and Language for a Software Development Plan

Software Architecture in DoD Acquisition: An Approach and Language for a Software Development Plan

Software Architecture in Practice (2nd Edition)

This book provides a concise, all-in-one, easily accessible overview of software architecture. Anyone requiring a comprehensive overview of the field of software architecture will benefit from this book. Software Architecture in Practice, 2nd edition, provides a comprehensive overview of the field of software architecture in a single, easy-to-digest package.

Software Architecture in an Integrated Engineering Methodology

Presented: April 2008

Software Architecture: An Executive Overview

Software Architecture: An Executive Overview

Software Architecture: The Next Generation 

Software Architecture: The Next Generation 

Software Architectures for Shared Information Systems

Software Architectures for Shared Information Systems

Some Perspectives in Teaching Software Architecture

presented as part of SATURN 2008, May 2008

Steps in an Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method: Quality Attribute Models and Analysis

Steps in an Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method: Quality Attribute Models and Analysis

Strategic Architecting

Strategic Architecting

Structural Modeling: An Application Framework and Development Process for Flight Simulators

Structural Modeling: An Application Framework and Development Process for Flight Simulators

Studying Software Architecture Through Design Spaces and Rules

Studying Software Architecture Through Design Spaces and Rules

Supporting the CANCEL Command Through Software Architecture

Supporting the CANCEL Command Through Software Architecture

Survey of Architecture Description Languages. A

white paper presented at the Eighth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design,
Germany, March 1996

System of Systems Architecture Evaluation with Concurrent Development

presentation made at the 2007 SATURN Workshop

Talking Architects with Len Bass

Matt Deacon talks with Len Bass, co-author of Software Architecture in Practice, about how quality attributes (non-functional requirements) as first class citizens of a project in an agile development environment.

Technology Evolution – Impact on Architecture of a Complex Medical Product

Presented: May 2007

The Architecture Based Design Method

The Architecture Based Design Method

The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method

The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method

The Recovery of Runtime Architectures

The Recovery of Runtime Architectures

Tool Support for Architecture Analysis and Design

The needs of software architectural design and analysis have led to a desire to create CASE tools to support the processes. Such a tool should help: to document an architecture; to reuse architectural artifacts; to aid in exploring architectural alternatives; and to support architectural metrics. This position paper first presents a set of requirements that an ideal tool for architectural design and analysis, and then presents a tool—called SAAM tool—that meets most, but not all, of these requirements. SAAM tool embodies both SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method) and an architectural description framework which describes architectural elements according to their static and temporal features. The tool serves several purposes. It supports and documents the results of architectural design and analysis efforts at varying degrees of resolution, it acts as a repository of both designs and design rationales in the form of scenarios, it applies metrics to architectures, and it visualizes architectures with respect to architectural metrics. 

Tools for Making Better Architecture Decisions

Keynote address from SATURN 2007: Tools are essential to support software architecture design and evaluation methods. In the presentation, Ian Gorton describes novel, prototype tools for architecture knowledge management, collaborative architecture design and decision making, and performance analysis of COTS-based architectures. A brief overview of the aims and major features of each tool is presented, and their use in industrial projects is discussed.

Toward Deriving Software Architectures from Quality Attributes

Toward Deriving Software Architectures from Quality Attributes

U.S. Army Workshop on Exploring Enterprise, System of Systems, System, and Software Architectures

The workshop summarized in this report confirms that various architectural genres enjoy more commonalities than differences. Nevertheless, each one has its own important knowledge base, and openness among the various architectural tasks within an organization is growing in importance.

Understanding Architectural Influences and Decisions in Large-System Projects

paper presented at the First International Workshop on Architectures for Software Systems, Seattle, April 1995

Understanding Architectural Patterns in Terms of Tactics and Models

Understanding Architectural Patterns in Terms of Tactics and Models

Use of the ATAM in the Acquisition of Software-Intensive Systems

Use of the ATAM in the Acquisition of Software-Intensive Systems

Use of the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) in Source Selection of Software-Intensive Systems

Use of the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) in Source Selection of Software-Intensive Systems

User Network for Software Architecture Technology Is Growing Steadily

User Network for Software Architecture Technology Is Growing Steadily

Using ArchE in the Classroom: One Experience

Using ArchE in the Classroom: One Experience

Using Architecture-Centric Methods within Plan Driven and Agile Software Development Processes

Presented: January 2005

Using Aspect-Oriented Programming to Enforce Architecture

Using Aspect-Oriented Programming to Enforce Architecture

Using Economic Considerations to Choose Among Architecture Design Alternatives

Using Economic Considerations to Choose Among Architecture Design Alternatives

Using Quality Attribute Workshops to Evaluate Early-Stage Architecture Design Decisions

Using Quality Attribute Workshops to Evaluate Early-Stage Architecture Design Decisions

Using Scenarios in Architecture Evaluations

Using Scenarios in Architecture Evaluations

View Extraction and View Fusion in Architectural Understanding

View Extraction and View Fusion in Architectural Understanding

Welcome Presentation (SATURN 2008)

Software architects from around the world attended the Fourth Annual SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Workshop in May 2008

Welcome to SATURN 2007

presentation from the Third SEI Software Architecture Technology User Network Workshop
May 14-16, 2007, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Working Session: Software Architecture Competence

presentation made by Paul Clements at the SATURN 2007 Working Session "Architecture Competence," May 15, 2007

Workshop to Present Best Practices in Software Architecture

Workshop to Present Best Practices in Software Architecture

presentation by Paul Clements at SATURN 2007, May 2007

presentation by Paul Clements at SATURN 2007, May 2007