A Case Study on SW Product Line Architecture Evaluation: Experience in the Consumer Electronics Domain

A well-executed software architecture is one of the most critical factors for achieving the intended effectiveness of a software product line as a holistic picture of a system. Today, many organizations are investing in architecture and its quality attributes for productivity, time to market and etc. In this paper, we show an evaluation framework named which provides criteria for measuring execution (designing and implementing) of an architecture and guideline for improvement based on measurement, analysis and improvement principle. We focused on software architecture design itself because we are mainly concerned with design and implementation issues thus concentrating on the architecture criteria. The contribution of the paper is to identify and demonstrate a architecture analysis and improvement process with practical experimentation results. The framework is based on design attributes of product line architecture and static analysis of architecture implementation.