SAAM: a method for analyzing the properties of software architectures

• DOI: 10.1109/icse.1994.296768
• Publication Date: 2002-12-17T14:36:54Z
• Authors: R. Kazman; L. Bass; G. Abowd; M. Webb
• Keywords: Maintainability; Software portability; Reusability; Modularity; Software architecture description; Resource-oriented architecture

While software architecture has become an increasingly important research topic in recent years, insufficient attention been paid to methods for evaluation of these architectures. Evaluating architectures is difficult two main reasons. First, there no common language used describe different Second, clear way understanding with respect organization's life cycle concerns -software quality such as maintainability portability, modularity, reusability, and so forth. We address shortcomings by describing three perspectives which we can understand the description a then proposing five-step method analyzing called SAAM (Software Architecture Analysis Method). illustrate separate user interface modifiability.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>