Authors:
Felipe Pinto
1
;
Uirá Kulesza
2
and
Eduardo Guerra
3
Affiliations:
1
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) and Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN), Brazil
;
2
Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil
;
3
National Institute for Space Research, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Scenario-based Evaluation, Architecture Evaluation, Annotation, Quality Attribute, Scenario.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
Abstract:
Traditional scenario-based architectural analysis methods rely on manual review-based evaluation that requires advanced skills from architects and evaluators. They are applied when the architecture has been specified, but before its implementation has begun. The system implementation is one additional and fundamental element that should be considered during the software architecture evaluation. In this paper, we propose an approach to add information, which ideally should come from traditional evaluation methods, about scenarios and quality attributes to the source code using metadata in order to allow the automatic analysis producing a report with information about scenarios, quality attributes, source code assets and potential tradeoff points among quality attributes. The paper also presents the preliminary results of the approach application to an enterprise web information system and an e-commerce web system.