Scaling up software architecture evaluation processes

摘要: As software systems become larger and more decentralized, increasinglycross organizational boundaries continue to change, traditional structuraland prescriptive architectures are becoming rule-centric forbetter accommodating changes regulating distributed design developmentprocesses. This is particularly true for Ultra-Large-Scale (ULS) systemsand industry-wide reference architectures. However, existing architecturedesign evaluation processes have mainly been designed structural architectureand do not scale up large complex system of systems. In this paper,we propose a new architecture process - EvaluationProcess Rule-centric Architecture (EPRA). EPRA reuses tailors existingproven analysis components scales complexsoftware-intensive We exemplify EPRA's use in an architectureevaluation exercise industry architecture.