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Economics-Driven Software Architecture
The first integrated body of knowledge on economics-driven and value-based models and metrics for software architecture.
Ivan Mistrik (Edited by), Rami Bahsoon (Edited by), Rick Kazman (Edited by), Yuanyuan Zhang (Edited by)
9780124104648, Elsevier Science
Paperback, published 17 June 2014
380 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.4 cm, 0.81 kg
"This multi-faceted body of knowledge will be able to guide any practicing software architect or software engineer in making explicit economic and strategic considerations of architectural choices." --Computing Reviews "The main goal of this book is to outline some of the current thinking on the processes and practices for economics- and value-oriented software architecting." --HPCMagazine.com, August 2014
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.
1: Introduction to EDSA Part I: Fundamentals of EDSA 2: A survey of economic models for product line architectures 3: Aspects of software valuation 4: An architecture framework for self-aware adaptive systems Part II: Economics-driven Architecting: design mechanisms and evaluation 5: Economics-driven software architecting for cloud 6: Economics-driven modularity evaluation Part III: Managing architectural economics 7: Software engineering leveraging the crowd 8: Architectural debt management in value-oriented architecting 9: The value matrix: Value to quality and architecture Part IV: Linking architecture inception and evolution to economics: experiences and approaches 10: Software evolution in the presence of externalities: A game-theoretic approach 11: Successful cyberInfrastructures for E-health
Subject Areas: Software Engineering [UMZ], Computer programming / software development [UM]
