Quality-Attribute-Based Economic Valuation of Architectural Patterns
Quality attribute requirements are a driving force for software and system architecture design. Architectural patterns can be used to achieve quality attribute requirements. Consequently architectural patterns generate value based on the present and future utility of the quality attributes they achieve. This report makes the case that architectural patterns carry economic value in part in the form of real options, providing software architects the right, but not the obligation, to take subsequent design actions. The report shows, via a simple example, how an analysis of the options embodied within architectural patterns allows an architect or manager to make reasoned choices about the future value of design decisions, considering this value along multiple quality attribute dimensions.
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Software ArchitectureTechnical Report
CMU/SEI-2007-TR-003
May 2007
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SEI:
Ozkaya, Ipek; Kazman, Rick; & Klein, Mark. Quality-Attribute-Based Economic Valuation of Architectural Patterns (CMU/SEI-2007-TR-003). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tr003.cfm
IEEE:
I. Ozkaya, R. Kazman, and M. Klein, "Quality-Attribute-Based Economic Valuation of Architectural Patterns," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-2007-TR-003, 2007. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tr003.cfm
APA:
Ozkaya, I., Kazman, R., & Klein, M. (2007). Quality-Attribute-Based Economic Valuation of Architectural Patterns (CMU/SEI-2007-TR-003). Retrieved June 19, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tr003.cfm
CHI:
Ozkaya, Ipek, Rick Kazman, and Mark Klein. Quality-Attribute-Based Economic Valuation of Architectural Patterns (CMU/SEI-2007-TR-003). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tr003.cfm
MLA:
Ozkaya, I., Kazman, R., & Klein, M. 2007. Quality-Attribute-Based Economic Valuation of Architectural Patterns (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2007-TR-003). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tr003.cfm
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