Economics-Driven Software Architecture

✍ Scribed by Ivan Mistrik, Rami Bahsoon, Rick Kazman, Yuanyuan Zhang

• Publisher: Elsevier Inc, Morgan Kaufmann
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 356
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Economics-driven Software Architecture presents a guide for engineers and architects who need to understand the economic impact of architecture design decisions: the long term and strategic viability, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability of applications and systems. Economics-driven software development can increase quality, productivity, and profitability, but comprehensive knowledge is needed to understand the architectural challenges involved in dealing with the development of large, architecturally challenging systems in an economic way.

This book covers how to apply economic considerations during the software architecting activities of a project. Architecture-centric approaches to development and systematic evolution, where managing complexity, cost reduction, risk mitigation, evolvability, strategic planning and long-term value creation are among the major drivers for adopting such approaches. It assists the objective assessment of the lifetime costs and benefits of evolving systems, and the identification of legacy situations, where architecture or a component is indispensable but can no longer be evolved to meet changing needs at economic cost. Such consideration will form the scientific foundation for reasoning about the economics of nonfunctional requirements in the context of architectures and architecting.

• Familiarizes readers with essential considerations in economic-informed and value-driven software design and analysis
• Introduces techniques for making value-based software architecting decisions
• Provides readers a better understanding of the methods of economics-driven architecting

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front-matter, Pages i,iii
Copyright, Page iv
Acknowledgments, Page xiii
About the Editors, Pages xv-xvi
List of Contributors, Pages xvii-xix, Paris Avgeriou, Rami Bahsoon, Yuanfang Cai, Hong-Mei Chen, Schahram Dustdar, Funmilade Faniyi, Claudiu Farcas, Emilia Farcas, Marios Fokaefs, Steffen Göbel, Martin Gaedke, Rick Kazman, Ingolf Krüger, Anand Kumar, Zengyang Li, Peng Liang, Doji Samson Lokku, Paul R. Messinger, Ivan Mistrik, Swaminathan Natarajan, Tobias Nestler, et al.
Foreword by John Grundy Economics-Driven Software Architecting, Pages xxi-xxvi, John Grundy
Foreword by Len Bass, Pages xxvii-xxix, Len Bass
Preface, Pages xxxi-xxxviii, Ivan Mistrik, Rami Bahsoon, Rick Kazman, Yuanyuan Zhang
Chapter 1 - Economics-Driven Software Architecture: Introduction, Pages 1-8, Rick Kazman, Rami Bahsoon, Ivan Mistrik, Yuanyuan Zhang
Chapter 2 - Economic Models and Value-Based Approaches for Product Line Architectures, Pages 11-36, Anil Kumar Thurimella, T. Maruthi Padmaja
Chapter 3 - Aspects of Software Valuation, Pages 37-58, Steve Tockey
Chapter 4 - An Architecture Framework for Self-Aware Adaptive Systems, Pages 59-80, Alistair Sutcliffe
Chapter 5 - Economics-Driven Software Architecting for Cloud, Pages 83-103, Funmilade Faniyi, Rami Bahsoon
Chapter 6 - A Decision-Support System Approach to Economics-Driven Modularity Evaluation, Pages 105-128, Yuanfang Cai, Rick Kazman, Carlos V.A. Silva, Lu Xiao, Hong-Mei Chen
Chapter 7 - Practices of Software Architects in Business and Strategy—An Industry Experience Report, Pages 129-156, Michael Stal
Chapter 8 - Toward Collaborative Software Engineering Leveraging the Crowd, Pages 159-182, Benjamin Satzger, Rostyslav Zabolotnyi, Schahram Dustdar, Stefan Wild, Martin Gaedke, Steffen Göbel, Tobias Nestler
Chapter 9 - Architectural Debt Management in Value-Oriented Architecting, Pages 183-204, Zengyang Li, Peng Liang, Paris Avgeriou
Chapter 10 - Value Matrix: From Value to Quality and Architecture, Pages 205-240, Anand Kumar, Kesav Vithal Nori, Swaminathan Natarajan, Doji Samson Lokku
Chapter 11 - Software Evolution in the Presence of Externalities: A Game-Theoretic Approach, Pages 243-258, Marios Fokaefs, Eleni Stroulia, Paul R. Messinger
Chapter 12 - Successful CyberInfrastructures for E-Health, Pages 259-295, Emilia Farcas, Claudiu Farcas, Ingolf Krüger
Chapter 13 - The Design Implications of Users’ Values for Software and System Architecture, Pages 297-321, Alistair Sutcliffe, Sarah Thew
Glossary, Pages 323-326
Author Index, Pages 327-332
Subject Index, Pages 333-341