The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (1998)
| Venue: | Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS |
| Citations: | 121 - 7 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Kazman98thearchitecture,
author = {Rick Kazman and Mark Klein and Mario Barbacci and Tom Longstaff and Howard Lipson and Jeromy Carriere},
title = {The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS},
year = {1998}
}
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Abstract
This paper presents the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM), a structured technique for understanding the tradeoffs inherent in design. 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—improving one often comes at the price of worsening one or more of the others as is demonstrated in the paper. The ATAM is a spiral model of design: one of postulating candidate architectures followed by analysis and risk mitigation, leading to refined architectures.
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| 16 | Principles for Evaluating the Quality Attributes of a Software Architecture (CMU/SEI-96-TR-036 - Barbacci, Klein, et al. - 1997 |
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