Experiences with SAA of Modifiability
| Document type: | Researchreports |
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| Author(s): | Nico Lassing, PerOlof Bengtsson, Hans van Vliet, Jan Bosch |
| Title: | Experiences with SAA of Modifiability |
| Translated title: | Erfarenheter av modifierbarhets analys av programvaruarkitekturer |
| Series: | Research Report |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Issue: | 10 |
| ISSN: | 1103-1581 |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | Department of Software Engineering and Computer Science (Institutionen för programvaruteknik och datavetenskap) Dept. of Software Engineering and Computer Science S-372 25 Ronneby +46 455 780 00 http://www.bth.se/eng/ipd/ |
| Authors e-mail: | perolof.bengtsson@ipd.hk-r.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | Modifiability is an important quality for software systems, because a large part of the costs associated with these systems is spent on modifications. The effort, and therefore cost, that is required for these modifications is largely determined by a system’s software architecture. Analysis of software architectures is therefore an important technique to achieve modifiability and reduce maintenance costs. However, few techniques for software architecture analysis currently exist. Based on our experiences with software architecture analysis of modifiability, we have developed an analysis method consisting of five steps. In this paper we report on our experiences with this method. We illustrate our experiences with examples from two case studies of SAA of modifiability. These case studies concern a system for mobile positioning at Ericsson Software Techology and a system for freight handling at DFDS Fraktarna. Our experiences are related to each step of the analysis process. In addition, we made some observations on SAA of modifiability in general. |
| Summary in Swedish: | Beskriver erfarenheterna från två fall studier. |
| Subject: | Software Engineering\General Computer Science\Computersystems |
| Note: | submitted for publication at HICSS conference. |
| URN: | urn:nbn:se:bth-00164 |
