An Architectural Analysis Case Study: Internet Information Systems 1
Rick Kazman, Len Bass, Gregory D. Abowd, Paul Clements · 1995
: This paper presents a method for analyzing systems for non-functional qualities from the perspective of their software architecture and applies it to the field of Internet Information Systems (IISs). Since non-functional qualities tend to be too abstract for comparing systems at the level of their software architecture, the method employs task scenarios as a way of comparing and contrasting the capabilities of different architectures with respect to specific aspects of the quality attributes of interest. Three issues are explored in detail in this paper: generality of the method, repeatability of the method, and the distinction between direct and indirect task scenarios with respect to architectural ramifications. 1 Introduction Increased attention is being directed toward the description and analysis of software architecture as an artifact of design. Our goal is to provide a method for analyzing architectural descriptions to determine how non-functional software qualities are supp...