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Models in Software Architecture Derivation and Evaluation: Challenges and Opportunities

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Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD 2014)

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Abstract

Software architecture derivation and evaluation are complex and error prone activities that still represent an open problem with many challenges and opportunities where model-driven software development can play a leading role. In software product line development, the use of model-driven principles could help by providing a richer semantic representation of a product line and by capturing the architectural design decisions and its impact on the product quality attributes. In this chapter, we analyze the main challenges and opportunities surrounding the product architecture derivation and evaluation and introduce QuaDAI, a method for the derivation, evaluation, and improvement of product architectures in model-driven software product line development environments. The method comprises a multimodel, which represents the different viewpoints of a software product line, and a process conducted by model transformations that automate the derivation, evaluation, and improvement of product architectures.

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Notes

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    The prototype is available for download at: http://users.dsic.upv.es/~jagonzalez/CarCarSPL/index.html.

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    The whole specification of the example is available at http://users.dsic.upv.es/~jagonzalez/CarCarSPL/links.html.

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    NFRs are defined in the quality viewpoint as constraints affecting the quality attributes whereas the prioritization of the quality attributes allows expressing the relative importance of each quality attribute.

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Gonzalez-Huerta, J., Insfran, E., Abrahão, S. (2015). Models in Software Architecture Derivation and Evaluation: Challenges and Opportunities. In: Hammoudi, S., Pires, L., Filipe, J., das Neves, R. (eds) Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development. MODELSWARD 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 506. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25156-1_2

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