ESDM - A Method for Developing Evolutionary Scenarios for Analysing the Impact of Historical Changes on Architectural Elements

Author

Shen, Yaqian ; Madhavji, Nazim H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Western Ontario Univ., London, Ont.

fYear

2006

fDate

24-27 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

45

Lastpage

54

Abstract

Software maintainers need appropriate information concerning the change they are about to make to a software system so that they can make suitable choices in their decisions. In this paper, we describe a method (called ESDM) for developing evolutionary scenarios that provide information concerning the impact historical changes of different types have had on the quality of software architectural elements of interest. This information can aid in the decisions maintainers are about to make concerning the change at hand. The effectiveness of the method for developing evolutionary scenarios has been validated through an empirical study on an open source software system (Apache HTTP Server 1.3). Initial support from maintainers for the value of the developed scenarios is a major boost for further work in this area

Keywords

software architecture; software maintenance; Apache HTTP Server 1.3; ESDM; software architectural elements; software evolutionary scenarios; software maintainance; Availability; Computer science; Feedback; Open source software; Security; Software maintenance; Software performance; Software quality; Software systems; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance, 2006. ICSM '06. 22nd IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Philadelphia, PA

ISSN

1063-6773

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2354-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.2006.26

Filename

4021319