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A Decision Support System for Pattern-Driven Software Architecture

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Software Architecture (ECSA 2020)

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The selection process of architectural patterns is challenging for software architects, as knowledge about patterns is scattered among a wide range of literature. Knowledge about architectural patterns must be collected, organized, stored, and quickly retrieved when it needs to be employed. In this tool paper, we introduce a decision support system that uses a decision model for supporting software architects with the pattern selection problem according to their requirements, including functional and quality requirements. The decision model is built based on a technology selection framework for modeling multi-criteria decision-making problems in software production. Twenty-four software architects in the Netherlands have evaluated the tool. They confirm that the tool supports them with their daily decision-making process.

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    Please watch a demo video of the DSS through this link: https://youtu.be/AhfGYpwpJSQ.

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  1. Department of Information and Computer Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Siamak Farshidi & Slinger Jansen

  2. School of Engineering Science, LUT University, Lappeenranta, Finland

    Slinger Jansen

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  1. University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

    Henry Muccini

  2. University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Paris Avgeriou

  3. Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Barbora Buhnova

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of York, York, UK

    Javier Camara

  5. Department of Computer Science, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden

    Mauro Caporuscio

  6. University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

    Mirco Franzago

  7. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Anne Koziolek

  8. University of Bergamo, Dalmine, Italy

    Patrizia Scandurra

  9. Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy

    Catia Trubiani

  10. Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Danny Weyns

  11. Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Uwe Zdun

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Farshidi, S., Jansen, S. (2020). A Decision Support System for Pattern-Driven Software Architecture. In: Muccini, H., et al. Software Architecture. ECSA 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1269. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59155-7_6

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