The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method
This paper presents the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM), a structured technique for understanding the tradeoffs inherent in the architectures of software-intensive systems. This method was developed to provide a principled way to evaluate a software architecture's fitness with respect to multiple competing quality attributes: modifiability, security, performance, availability, and so forth. These attributes interact, and improving one often comes at the price of worsening one or more of the others. The method helps us reason about architectural decisions that affect quality attribute interactions. The ATAM is a spiral model of design, one of postulating candidate architectures followed by analysis and risk mitigation that lead to refined architectures.
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Software ArchitectureTechnical Report
CMU/SEI-98-TR-008
July 1998
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SEI:
Kazman, Rick; Klein, Mark; Barbacci, Mario; Longstaff, Thomas; Lipson, Howard; & Carriere, S.. The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (CMU/SEI-98-TR-008). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1998. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/98tr008.cfm
IEEE:
R. Kazman, M. Klein, M. Barbacci, T. Longstaff, H. Lipson, and S. Carriere, "The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-98-TR-008, 1998. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/98tr008.cfm
APA:
Kazman, R., Klein, M., Barbacci, M., Longstaff, T., Lipson, H., & Carriere, S. (1998). The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (CMU/SEI-98-TR-008). Retrieved May 24, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/98tr008.cfm
CHI:
Kazman, Rick, Mark Klein, Mario Barbacci, Thomas Longstaff, Howard Lipson, and S. Carriere. The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (CMU/SEI-98-TR-008). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1998. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/98tr008.cfm
MLA:
Kazman, R., Klein, M., Barbacci, M., Longstaff, T., Lipson, H., & Carriere, S. 1998. The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (Technical Report CMU/SEI-98-TR-008). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/98tr008.cfm
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