A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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.
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.
Quality-Attribute-Based Economic Valuation of Architectural Patterns
2007
51 pages
Report
No indication
English
Computer Software , Computer Hardware , Software engineering , Computer architecture , Patterns , Requirements , Uncertainty , Value , Design criteria , Quality , Modular construction , Economic analysis , Decision making , Real options , Economics-driven architecting , Quality attributes , Financial options , Value-drive software engineering
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