Quality-Attribute-Based Economic Valuation of Architectural Patterns
• Technical Report
Publisher
Software Engineering Institute
CMU/SEI Report Number
CMU/SEI-2007-TR-003DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
10.1184/R1/6582686.v1Subjects
Abstract
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.
Cite This Technical Report
Ozkaya, I., Kazman, R., & Klein, M. (2007, May 1). Quality-Attribute-Based Economic Valuation of Architectural Patterns. (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2007-TR-003). Retrieved April 18, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6582686.v1.
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Ozkaya, Ipek, Rick Kazman, and Mark Klein. "Quality-Attribute-Based Economic Valuation of Architectural Patterns." (CMU/SEI-2007-TR-003). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library. Software Engineering Institute, May 1, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6582686.v1.
I. Ozkaya, R. Kazman, and M. Klein, "Quality-Attribute-Based Economic Valuation of Architectural Patterns," Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library. Software Engineering Institute, Technical Report CMU/SEI-2007-TR-003, 1-May-2007 [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6582686.v1. [Accessed: 18-Apr-2024].
Ozkaya, Ipek, Rick Kazman, and Mark Klein. "Quality-Attribute-Based Economic Valuation of Architectural Patterns." (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2007-TR-003). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library, Software Engineering Institute, 1 May. 2007. https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6582686.v1. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
Ozkaya, Ipek; Kazman, Rick; & Klein, Mark. Quality-Attribute-Based Economic Valuation of Architectural Patterns. CMU/SEI-2007-TR-003. Software Engineering Institute. 2007. https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6582686.v1