Quality of Software Architectures. Models and Architectures: 4th International Conference on the Quality of Software-Architectures, QoSA 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 14-17, 2008. Proceedings

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by  Danilo Ardagna

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Quality of
Software Architectures
Models and Architectures
4th International Conference on the Quality
of Software Architectures, QoSA 2008
Karlsruhe, Germany, October 14-17, 2008
Proceedings
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CharlesUniversity,DepartmentofSoftwareEngineering
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UniversitätKarlsruhe(TH),KarlsruheInstituteofTechnology(KIT)
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Preface
Models are used in all kinds of engineering disciplines to abstract from the various
detailsofthemodelledentityinordertofocusonaspecificaspect.Likeablueprintin
civilengineering,asoftwarearchitectureprovidesanabstractionfromthefullsoftware
system’s complexity. It allows software designers to get an overview on the system
underdevelopmentandtoanalyzeitsproperties.Inthissense,modelsarethefoundation
neededforsoftwaredevelopmenttobecomeatrueengineeringdiscipline.
Especially when reasoning on a software system’s extra-functionalproperties, its
softwarearchitecturecarriesthenecessaryinformationforearly,design-timeanalyses.
These analyses take the software architecture as input and can be used to direct the
designprocessbyallowingasystematicevaluationofdifferentdesignalternatives.For
example,theycanbeusedtocanceloutdecisionswhichwouldleadtoarchitecturede-
signswhoseimplementationwouldnotcomplywithextra-functionalrequirementslike
performanceorreliabilityconstraints.Besidessuchqualityattributesdirectlyvisibleto
theenduser,internalqualityattributes,e.g.,maintainability,alsohighlydependonthe
system’sarchitecture.
Inadditiontotheabove-mentionedtechnicalaspectsofsoftwarearchitecturemod-
els,non-technicalaspects,especiallyprojectmanagement-relatedactivities,requirean
explicit software architecture model. The models are used as input for cost estima-
tions, time-, deadline-, and resource planningfor the developmentteams. They serve
the project management activities of planning, executing, and controlling, which are
necessarytodeliverhigh-qualitysoftwaresystemsintimeandwithinthebudget.
The4thInternationalConferenceontheQualityofSoftwareArchitectures(QoSA)
2008 focused on software architecture models and modelling techniques through its
motto"ModelsandArchitectures."Afocuswassetonmodelswhichaimatimproving
the predictabilityofthe qualityof systems underdevelopment.Inso doing,it contin-
uedQoSA’straditionofusingsoftwarearchitecturestodevelopandevolvehigh-quality
softwaresystems.Sucharchitecturalmodelscontaindetailsonthe structureofa soft-
ware,i.e.,thecomponentsandconnectorsitisbuiltof,thesoftware’sbehavior,i.e.,its
control and data flows, and the software’s deployment, i.e., the allocation of compo-
nents and connectorson software and hardware environments. In line with the focus
onmodels,QoSA2008alsofocusedontheautomatedtransformationofmodelsusing
model-drivendevelopmenttechniques.
QoSA2008received36submissions.Fromthesesubmissions,13wereacceptedas
long papers after a careful peer-reviewprocess followed by an online Program Com-
mittee discussion. This resulted in an acceptance rate of 36%. The selected technical
papersarepublishedinthisvolume,togetherwithawrittenversionoftheinvitedtalk
byCarloGhezzi.Forthesecondtime,QoSAwasheldaspartoftheconferenceseries
FederatedEventsonComponent-BasedSoftwareEngineeringandSoftwareArchitec-
ture(COMPARCH).ThefederatedeventswereQoSA2008,the11thInternationalSym-
posiumonComponent-BasedSoftwareEngineering(CBSE2008)andtheWorkshopon
VI Preface
Component-BasedHigh-PerformanceComputing(CBHPC2008).TogetherwithCOM-
PARCH’s Industrial Experience Report Track and the co-located Workshop on
Component-Oriented Programming (WCOP 2008), COMPARCH provided a broad
spectrumofeventsrelatedtocomponentsandarchitectures.ByintegratingQoSA’sand
CBSE’s technical programs in COMPARCH 2008, both conferences elaborated their
successfulcollaborationthusdemonstratingthecloserelationshipbetweensoftwarear-
chitecturesandtheirconstitutingsoftwarecomponents.
AmongthemanypeoplewhocontributedtothesuccessofQoSA2008,wewould
like to thankthe membersofthe ProgramCommitteesfor theirvaluableworkduring
the review process, as well as Carlo Ghezzi, Michael Stal, Thomas Dreier, Philippe
Kruchten,andFlorianMatthesfortheirCOMPARCHkeynotes.Additionally,wethank
AlfredHofmannfromSpringerforhissupportinreviewingandpublishingtheproceed-
ingsvolumeandHenningGroendaforhissupportinorganizingQoSA andpreparing
this LNCS volume. The QoSA organizerswould also like to thank the supporters of
COMPARCH 2008,namely 1&1 InternetAG and sd&m AG. This conferencewould
nothavebeenpossiblewithoutthecommitmentofallthesepeopleandoursupporters.
July2008 SteffenBecker
FrantisekPlasil
RalfReussner
Organization
QoSA2008 (PartofCOMPARCH2008)
GeneralChair
RalfReussner,UniversityofKarlsruhe(TH),Germany
ProgramCommitteeChairs
SteffenBecker,ForschungszentrumInformatik(FZI),Germany
FrantisekPlasil,CharlesUniversity,CzechRepublic
ProgramCommittee
ColinAtkinson,UniversityofMannheim,Germany
AchimBaier,itemisAG,Germany
LenBass,SoftwareEngineeringInstitute,USA
JanBosch,Intuit,USA
JeremyBradley,ImperialCollegeLondon,UK
VincenzoGrassi,UniversityofRome"TorVergata",Italy
WilhelmHasselbring,UniversityofOldenburg/OFFIS,Germany
ChristineHofmeister,LehighUniversity,USA
Jean-MarcJezequel,UniversityofRennes/INRIA,France
SamuelKounev,UniversityofCambridge,UK
PatriciaLago,VrijeUniversiteit,TheNetherlands
NicoleLevy,UniversityofVersailles,France
MarkusLumpe,SwinburneUniversity,Australia
EricMadelaine,Inria,France
TomiMannisto,HelsinkiUniversityofTechnology,Finland
NenadMedvidovic,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia,USA
RaffaelaMirandola,PolitecnicodiMilano,Italy
RobertNord,SoftwareEngineeringInstitute,USA
DorinaPetriu,CarletonUniversity,Canada
ImanPoernomo,King’sCollege,UK
SasikumarPunnekkat,MälardalenUniversity,Sweden
AndreasRausch,ClausthalUniversityofTechnology,Germany
MatthiasRiebisch,TechnicalUniversityofIlmenau,Germany
RoshanakRoshandel,SeattleUniversity,USA
BernhardRumpe,UniversityofTechnologyBraunschweig,Germany
Jean-GuySchneider,SwinburneUniversity,Australia
MichaelStal,Siemens,Germany
PetrTuma,CharlesUniversity,CzechRepublic
AxelUhl,SAP,Germany
KurtWallnau,SoftwareEngineeringInstitute,USA
VIII Organization
WolfgangWeck,IndependentSoftwareArchitect,Switzerland
MurrayWoodside,CarltonUniversity,Canada
SteffenZschaler,TechnicalUniversityofDresden,Germany
Co-reviewers
HuseyinAysan,MälardalenUniversity,Sweden
FranzBrosch,ForschungszentrumInformatik(FZI),Germany
AntonioCansado,Inria,France
VirginieContes,Inria,France
FabriceHuet,Inria,France
ChristophRathfelder,ForschungszentrumInformatik(FZI),Germany
MajorSupporters
1&1InternetAG,Karlsruhe,Germany
sd&mAG,Munich,Germany
Table of Contents
Keynote
Rethinking the Use of Models in Software Architecture ............... 1
Danilo Ardagna, Carlo Ghezzi, and Raffaela Mirandola
Architectural Design Decisions and Influence on Quality
Design Reasoning Improves Software Design Quality.................. 28
Antony Tang, Minh H. Tran, Jun Han, and Hans van Vliet
A Tool to Visualize Architectural Design Decisions ................... 43
Larix Lee and Philippe Kruchten
Style-Based Model Transformation for Early Extrafunctional Analysis
of Distributed Systems ........................................... 55
Julien Mallet and Siegfried Rouvrais
Architecture and Components / Reasoning about
Components
Carmen: Software Component Model Checker ....................... 71
Aleˇs Plˇsek and Jiˇr´ı Ad´amek
MOSES: MOdeling Software and platform architEcture in UML 2 for
Simulation-based performance analysis.............................. 86
Vittorio Cortellessa, Pierluigi Pierini, Romina Spalazzese, and
Alessio Vianale
Designing the Enterprise Architecture Function ...................... 103
Bas van der Raadt and Hans van Vliet
Quality Prediction of Service Compositions through Probabilistic
Model Checking ................................................. 119
Stefano Gallotti, Carlo Ghezzi, Raffaela Mirandola, and
Giordano Tamburrelli
Models and Prediction
Model-Driven Performance Analysis ................................ 135
Gabriel A. Moreno and Paulo Merson
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Architectural Specification and Static Analyses of Contractual
Application Properties............................................ 152
Guillaume Waignier, Anne-Franc¸oise Le Meur, and
Laurence Duchien
Integrating Quality-Attribute Reasoning Frameworks in the ArchE
Design Assistant ................................................. 171
Andres Diaz-Pace, Hyunwoo Kim, Len Bass, Phil Bianco, and
Felix Bachmann
Architecture Evaluation Processes
Middleware Architecture Evaluation for Dependable Self-managing
Systems ........................................................ 189
Yan Liu, Muhammad Ali Babar, and Ian Gorton
Comprehensive Architecture Evaluation and Management in Large
Software-Systems ................................................ 205
Frank Salger, Marcel Bennicke, Gregor Engels, and Claus Lewerentz
Sharing the Architectural Knowledge of Quantitative Analysis ......... 220
Anton Jansen, Tjaard de Vries, Paris Avgeriou, and
Martijn van Veelen
Author Index.................................................. 235