Generation and evaluation of design alternatives for software architectures (GenEDA)

软件架构设计替代方案的生成和评估 (GenEDA)

• 批准号: 141396433
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Michael Goedicke
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Fachgebiet Software Engineering
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2008-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/141396433?language=en
• 关键词: Generation; evaluation; design; alternatives; software

We aim at deepening and broadening our methodology developed in the ongoing project GenEDA by taking into account further research questions. In our work in GenEDA, we successfully treated security and performance as external quality attributes. For the proposed project, we strive forinvestigating evolvability as an internal quality attribute and integrating it in our method.In GenEDA we have developed a method to generate design alternatives with regard to quality requirements. To select a suitable architecture design alternative, interactions and conflicts among quality requirements such as security, performance, and the new evolvability requirements should be detected and resolved. In the proposed project, we want to provide a method for interaction and trade-off analysis to detect and resolve such conflicts.Third, we aim at providing support for software engineers in their decision-making process when choosing among different design alternatives. For this purpose, we make use of optimisation problems and state-of-the-art techniques to select the optimal design alternative with respect to a certain fitness function.To satisfy the needs of different user groups, different variants of software products are developed. This leads to the research area of software product line engineering (SPLE). Current SPLE approaches focus mainly on functional requirements and pay less attention to quality requirements. We want to provide variability with focus on quality requirements. Introducing quality requirements adds another dimension of variability to the software product family, which we want to deal with in an enhancement of the GenEDA method.All in all, the results obtained when addressing the above-mentioned topics will lead to a much more powerful support for designing quality-aware software architectures. We first plan to investigate the above-mentioned topics one by one, relating them to the current GenEDA methodology. In the second phase of the proposed project, the interplay between the investigated areas will be analyzed, and we will come up with a proposal how to balance the different approaches. During the third project phase, we apply the enhanced GenEDA method to a real-life scenario and develop a benchmark, which supports future research by a broad research community. In parallel to the other phases we will integrate our existing GenEDA tools into one single tool and extend it to provide support for the enhanced GenEDA method.

我们的目标是通过考虑进一步的研究问题，深化和扩大我们在正在进行的项目GenEDA中开发的方法。在GenEDA的工作中，我们成功地将安全性和性能视为外部质量属性。对于所提出的项目，我们努力forinvestigating演化作为一个内部的质量属性，并将其集成到我们的method.In GenEDA，我们已经开发出一种方法来生成设计方案的质量要求。为了选择一个合适的架构设计方案，质量需求，如安全性，性能和新的可演化性需求之间的相互作用和冲突应该被检测和解决。在建议的项目中，我们希望提供一种方法的相互作用和权衡分析，以检测和解决这种冲突。第三，我们的目标是提供支持，软件工程师在他们的决策过程中，当选择不同的设计方案。为此，我们利用最优化问题和最先进的技术来选择相对于某个适应度函数的最佳设计方案。为了满足不同用户群体的需求，开发了不同的软件产品。这就引出了软件产品线工程（SPLE）的研究领域。目前的SPLE方法主要关注功能需求，而对质量需求关注较少。我们希望提供可变性，重点关注质量要求。引入质量需求增加了另一个维度的可变性的软件产品家族，我们要处理的GenEDA方法的增强。总而言之，当解决上述主题时获得的结果将导致设计质量感知的软件架构更强大的支持。我们首先计划逐一调查上述主题，将它们与当前的GenEDA方法学联系起来。在拟议项目的第二阶段，将分析调查区域之间的相互作用，并提出如何平衡不同方法的建议。在第三个项目阶段，我们将增强的GenEDA方法应用于现实生活中的场景，并开发了一个基准，支持广泛的研究社区未来的研究。在其他阶段的同时，我们将把现有的GenEDA工具整合到一个单一的工具中，并对其进行扩展，为增强的GenEDA方法提供支持。

项目成果

1st Workshop on VAriability for QUalIties in SofTware Architecture (VAQUITA): Workshop Introduction

第一届软件架构质量可变性研讨会 (VAQUITA)：研讨会简介

• DOI: 10.1145/2797433.2797455
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 2015 European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops
• 作者: Azadeh Alebrahim;Stephan Faßbender;Martin Filipczyk;Michael Goedicke;Maritta Heisel;Uwe Zdun
• 通讯作者: Uwe Zdun

Optimizing Functional and Quality Requirements According to Stakeholders' Goals

• DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-417009-4.00004-1
• 发表时间: 2014
• 作者: Azadeh Alebrahim;C. Choppy;Stephan Faßbender;M. Heisel

Problem-Based Requirements Interaction Analysis

基于问题的需求交互分析

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-05843-6_15
• 发表时间: 2014
• 作者: Azadeh Alebrahim;Stephan Faßbender;Maritta Heisel;Rene Meis
• 通讯作者: Rene Meis

Towards a Computer-Aided Problem-Oriented Variability Requirements Engineering Method

走向计算机辅助的面向问题的可变性需求工程方法

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07869-4_12
• 发表时间: 2014
• 作者: Azadeh Alebrahim;Stephan Faßbender;Martin Filipczyk;Michael Goedicke;Maritta Heisel;Marco Konersmann
• 通讯作者: Marco Konersmann

Towards a reliable mapping between performance and security tactics, and architectural patterns

• DOI: 10.1145/2855321.2855361
• 发表时间: 2015-07
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs
• 作者: Azadeh Alebrahim;Stephan Faßbender;Martin Filipczyk;M. Goedicke;M. Heisel