Automating the Architecture Evaluation of Enterprise Information Systems

Felipe Pinto, Uirá Kulesza, Eduardo Guerra

2013

Abstract

Traditional scenario-based architectural analysis methods rely on manual review-based evaluation that requires advanced skills from architects and evaluators. They are applied when the architecture has been specified, but before its implementation has begun. The system implementation is one additional and fundamental element that should be considered during the software architecture evaluation. In this paper, we propose an approach to add information, which ideally should come from traditional evaluation methods, about scenarios and quality attributes to the source code using metadata in order to allow the automatic analysis producing a report with information about scenarios, quality attributes, source code assets and potential tradeoff points among quality attributes. The paper also presents the preliminary results of the approach application to an enterprise web information system and an e-commerce web system.

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Pinto F., Kulesza U. and Guerra E. (2013). Automating the Architecture Evaluation of Enterprise Information Systems . In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8565-61-7, pages 333-340. DOI: 10.5220/0004452103330340


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis13,
author={Felipe Pinto and Uirá Kulesza and Eduardo Guerra},
title={Automating the Architecture Evaluation of Enterprise Information Systems},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2013},
pages={333-340},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004452103330340},
isbn={978-989-8565-61-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - Automating the Architecture Evaluation of Enterprise Information Systems
SN - 978-989-8565-61-7
AU - Pinto F.
AU - Kulesza U.
AU - Guerra E.
PY - 2013
SP - 333
EP - 340
DO - 10.5220/0004452103330340