SAAM: A Method for Analyzing the Properties of Software Architectures

SAAM: A Method for Analyzing the Properties of Software Architectures (1994)

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by Rick Kazman , Len Bass , Gregory Abowd , Mike Webb

Venue:	in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Engineering
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TITLE	SAAM: A Method for Analyzing the Properties of Software Architectures	INFERENCE
AUTHOR NAME	Rick Kazman	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Computer Science Software Engineering Institute Texas Instruments Inc.; University of Waterloo Carnegie Mellon University Dallas	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	TX, U. S.A.. 75265; Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G1 Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A. 15213 smw@sei.cmu.edu	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Len Bass	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Computer Science Software Engineering Institute Texas Instruments Inc.; University of Waterloo Carnegie Mellon University Dallas	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	TX, U. S.A.. 75265; Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G1 Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A. 15213 smw@sei.cmu.edu	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Gregory Abowd	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Computer Science Software Engineering Institute Texas Instruments Inc.; University of Waterloo Carnegie Mellon University Dallas	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	TX, U. S.A.. 75265; Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G1 Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A. 15213 smw@sei.cmu.edu	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Mike Webb	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	Department of Computer Science Software Engineering Institute Texas Instruments Inc.; University of Waterloo Carnegie Mellon University Dallas	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	TX, U. S.A.. 75265; Waterloo, ON Canada N2L 3G1 Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A. 15213 smw@sei.cmu.edu	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	While software architecture has become an increasingly important research topic in recent years, insufficient atten-tion has been paid to methods for evaluation of these archi-tectures. Evaluating architectures is dijjicultfor two main reasons. First, there is no common language used 10 de-scribe different architectures. Second, there is no clear way of understanding an architecture with respect to an organi-zation’s ll~e cycle concerns—software quality concerns such as maintainability, portability, modularity, reusability, and so forth. This paper addresses these shortcomings by describing three perspectives by which we can understand the description of a soflware architecture and then propos-ing ajve-step method for analyzing software architectures called SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method). We illustrate the method by analyzing three separate user in-terface architectures with respect to the qualiiy of modifi-ability. 1	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	1994	INFERENCE
VENUE	in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Software Engineering	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	81--90	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	2 found	ParsCit 1.0