Pragmatic Evaluation of Software Architectures

Presents the lessons learned from more than 75 architecture evaluation projects with industrial customers Provides comprehensive answers to more than 100 typical questions and discusses more than 60 frequent mistakes and lessons learned Written in a style accessible to both professionals and researchers and offers a balance of quantitative measurement and qualitative expertise Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Jens Knodel is senior architect and consultant at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. He is responsible for project management, software and system architecture design, and smart ecosystems in research and industry projects. He shares his experience about software engineering at international conferences and journal publications, in scientific publications and is a lecturer for software architecture at the Fraunhofer Academy, the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, and the Hochschule Mannheim.

Matthias Naab is head of the Architecture-Centric Engineering department at Fraunhofer IESE and a lecturer for software architecture at the Fraunhofer Academy. He led and conducted dozens of architecture evaluations for customers from many industries, helping customers to make adequate decisions around their software systems. He shares his experience about architecture evaluation at practitioner conferences and in scientific publications.

Inhalt

Foreword.- Preface.- Table of Questions about Architecture Evaluation.- Table of Frequent Mistakes and Lessons Learned in Architecture Evaluation.- PART I What is the Point of Architecture Evaluation?.- PART II How to Evaluate Architectures Effectively and Efficiently?.- PART III How to Apply Architecture Evaluation in Practice?.- Bibliography.