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System Integration and Architecture: By: Mujtaba Hassan

The document discusses various quality attributes that affect software architecture design. It categorizes quality attributes into different areas such as design qualities, runtime qualities, system qualities, user qualities, non-runtime qualities, architecture qualities, and business qualities. For each category, it provides examples of specific quality attributes such as reliability, performance, usability, portability, and marketability. It also includes diagrams to illustrate how quality attributes can be defined and measured using scenarios.

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System Integration and Architecture: By: Mujtaba Hassan

The document discusses various quality attributes that affect software architecture design. It categorizes quality attributes into different areas such as design qualities, runtime qualities, system qualities, user qualities, non-runtime qualities, architecture qualities, and business qualities. For each category, it provides examples of specific quality attributes such as reliability, performance, usability, portability, and marketability. It also includes diagrams to illustrate how quality attributes can be defined and measured using scenarios.

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System Integration and Architecture

By:
Mujtaba Hassan

Lecture 8
25/10/19
QUALITY ATTRIBUTES : SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE
Introduction
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 Overall factors that affect run-time behavior, system


design, and user experience

Software quality is the degree to which software


possesses a desired combination of attributes(e.g.,
reliability, interoperability) [IEEE 1061].
Architecture and Quality Attributes
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 Architecture, by itself, is unable to achieve qualities

 Architecture should include the factors of interest for


each attribute
Quality Attributes
4 Scenario
⮚ Is a quality-attribute-specific requirement
⮚ It consists of six parts:

◻ Source of
stimulus
◻ Stimulus
◻ Environment
◻ Artifact
◻ Response
◻ ResponseFigure
measure
1: Quality attributes Parts
Common Quality Attributes
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 It categorizes the attributes in various specific areas


 Design qualities
 Runtime qualities
 System qualities
 User qualities
 Non-runtime qualities
 Architecture qualities
 Business qualities
Design Quality Attributes
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 Conceptual Integrity:
 Defines the consistency and reason of the overall
design
 Includes the way that components or modules are
designed
 Maintainability:
 Ability of the system to go through changes with a degree
of ease
 Reusability:
 Defines the capability for components and subsystems to
be suitable for use in other applications
Runtime Quality Attributes
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 Interoperability:
 Ability of a system or different systems to operate
successfully by communicating and exchanging
information with other external systems written and
run by external parties
 Manageability:
 Defines how easy it is for system administrators to
manage the application
 Reliability:
 Ability of a system to remain functioning over time
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 Scalability:
 Ability of a system to either handle increases in load
without impact on the performance of the system.
 Performance:
 Indication of the responsiveness of a system to
execute any action
 Security:
 Capability of a system to prevent malicious or
accidental actions outside of the designed usage
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 Availability:
 Amount of time that the system is functional and
working
 Measured as a percentage of the total system
lost time over a predefined period
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Figure 2: Sample performance scenario

Figure 3: Sample security scenario


System Quality Attributes
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 Supportability:
 Ability of the system to provide information helpful for
identifying and resolving issues when it fails to work
correctly
 Testability:
 Measure of how easy it is to create test criteria for the
system and its components

Figure 4: Sample testability scenario


User Quality Attributes
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 Usability:
 Defines how well the application meets the
requirements of the user and consumer by being
natural

Figure 5: Sample usability scenario


Non-runtime Quality Attributes
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 Portability:
 Ability of a system to run under different computing
environments
 Reusability:
 Degree to which existing applications can be reused
in new applications
 Integrability:
 Ability to make the separately developed components
of the system work correctly together
 Modifiability:
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 Ease with which a software system can accommodate


changes to its software

Figure 6: Sample modifiability scenario


Architecture Quality Attributes
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 Correctness:
 Accountability for satisfying all requirements of the
system
 Conceptual Integrity:
 Integrity of the overall structure that is collected
from a number of small architectural structures
Business Quality Attributes
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 Cost and schedule:


 Cost of the system with respect to time to market and
expected project lifetime
 Marketability:
 Use of the system with respect to market competition

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