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ISARE: An Integrated Software Architecture Reuse and Evaluation Framework

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Advances in Software Engineering (ASEA 2010)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 117))

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Quality is an important consideration in the development of today’s large complex software systems. Software architecture and quality play a vital role in the success or failure of any software system. Similarly to maintain the qualities of a software system during development and to adapt the quality attributes as the software requirements changes, software architecture is necessary. This paper discusses software quality attributes and the support provided by software architecture to achieve the desired quality. A novel Software Architecture Reuse and Evaluation framework is proposed on the basis of existing software architecture evaluation methods with respect to quality requirements. A case study is used for experimental validation of the ISARE. The results show that ISARE ensures the required level of quality requirements in the software architecture and automatable.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Shaheed Zulifqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Islamabad

    Rizwan Ahmad

  2. Department of Computer Science, Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad

    Saif ur Rehman Khan

  3. Center for Software Dependability, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University (MAJU), Islamabad

    Aamer Nadeem

  4. Dept. of Multimedia, Hannam University, 133, Ojeong-dong, Daedeok-gu, Daejeon, Korea

    Tai-hoon Kim

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  1. Hannam University, Daejeon, South Korea

    Tai-hoon Kim

  2. Catholic University of Daegu, 330, Hayangup, Kyungsan, Kyungbuk, Korea

    Haeng-Kon Kim

  3. King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Muhammad Khurram Khan

  4. University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, USA

    Akingbehin Kiumi

  5. National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Wai-chi Fang

  6. University of Warsaw, and Infobright, Warsaw, Poland

    Dominik Ślęzak

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Ahmad, R., ur Rehman Khan, S., Nadeem, A., Kim, Th. (2010). ISARE: An Integrated Software Architecture Reuse and Evaluation Framework. In: Kim, Th., Kim, HK., Khan, M.K., Kiumi, A., Fang, Wc., Ślęzak, D. (eds) Advances in Software Engineering. ASEA 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 117. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17578-7_18

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