Guiding Architectural Decisions with the Influencing Factors Method

Author

Stoll, Pia ; Wall, Anders ; Norström, Christer

Author_Institution

ABB Corp. Res., Vasteras

fYear

2008

fDate

18-21 Feb. 2008

Firstpage

179

Lastpage

188

Abstract

The influencing factors (IF) method guides the architect through stakeholders´ concerns to architectural decisions in line with current business goals. The result is a set of requirements on software quality attributes and business goals and highlighted trade-offs among software quality attributes and among business goals. The IF method is suitable for sustainable software systems since it allows new concerns, resulting from changes in business goals, stakeholder concerns, technical environment and organization, to be added to existing concerns.

Keywords

formal specification; software architecture; software quality; architectural decision; business goal; influencing factors; software quality; software requirements; sustainable software system; technical environment; Business; Computer architecture; Computer industry; Electronics industry; Hardware; Java; Software architecture; Software development management; Software quality; Software systems; Business Goals; Concerns; Influencing Factors; Software Architecture; Software Quality Attributes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Architecture, 2008. WICSA 2008. Seventh Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3092-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICSA.2008.22

Filename

4459156