Architectural Quality in Development Processes: A Case Study.
Anna Grimán, María Pérez · The Journal of Object Technology · 2003
Software quality is expressed through various attributes, many of them are architectural.So, an architecture-focused development process, with an integrated self-evaluation, must be selected.The purpose of this research is to present the incorporation of Architectural Tradeoff Analysis Method in the Rational Unified Process which emphasizes the definition of the software architecture through its 4+1 architectural views.The improved RUP was applied to a case study: a Knowledge Management System (KMS), and the most important quality attributes for it were selected during the elaboration phase (Maintainability, Reliability and Efficiency), candidates architectures were proposed and the most suitable architecture was gotten.