Evaluating modeling efficiency of a specific software architecture
Masumi Kawakami, Atsushi Yoshida, Sadahiro Isoda · Systems and Computers in Japan · 2000
Software architectural styles that represent structural characteristics of software programs range from specific ones that can be applied to a particular domain to generic ones that can be applied to any domain. If a specific architectural style is available for the target system to be developed, it is appropriate to apply it together with its associated modeling method. However, no quantitative evaluation on the efficiency of specific architectural styles has as yet been reported. This paper presents a quantitative comparison of two architectural styles: specific and generic software architectural styles. The comparison shows that a specific architectural style combined with its associated modeling method allows us to reduce modeling cost as much as a few scores of percent compared with the generic one combined with its modeling method. The improvement results from the characteristics that (1) a specific software architectural style requires less rewriting of modeling diagrams due to its inherent basic structure and (2) there is less redundant information among modeling diagrams. © 2000 Scripta Technica, Syst Comp Jpn, 31(11): 1–11, 2000