Quality-Oriented Software Product Line Architecture Design

Lei Tan, Yuqing Lin, Huilin Ye

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia.

DOI: 10.4236/jsea.2012.57054                

Abstract

Software architecture design is a critical step of software development. Currently, there are various design methods available and each is focusing on certain perspective of architecture design. Especially, quality-based methods have received a lot of attentions and have been well developed for single system architecture design. However, the use of quality-based design methods is limited in software product line (SPL) because of the complexity and variabilities existing in SPL architecture. In this paper, we introduce an extra view to the Quality-Driven Architecture Design and quality Analysis (QADA) method, in order to provide a more effective quality-based architecture design framework for SPL. In this framework, the quality attributes of a software system will be taken into account in the early stage of architecture design and the reference architecture of SPL will be elicited based on quality-related consideration.

Keywords

Software Architecture; Software Product Line (SPL); Quality-Oriented; Requirement Traceability

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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