Concern-oriented analysis and refactoring of software architectures using dependency structure matrices

Bedir Tekinerdogan; Frank Scholten; Christian Hofmann; Mehmet Aksit

doi:10.1145/1509825.1509829

Concern-oriented analysis and refactoring of software architectures using dependency structure matrices

Bedir Tekinerdogan
, Frank Scholten
, Christian Hofmann
, Mehmet Aksit

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Abstract

Current scenario-based architecture analysis methods analyze the architecture with respect to scenarios that relate to stakeholder concerns. Albeit the primary motivation is to analyze the impact of stakeholders' concerns, it appears that concerns are not explicitly represented as first class abstractions. The lack of an explicit notion of concern in scenario-based analysis approaches can result in an incomplete analysis because scenarios are too specific and can only partially represent the concerns. We propose the concern-oriented architecture analysis method (COSAAM) that builds on scenario-based approaches but includes an explicit notion of concern in the analysis. COSAAM applies Dependency Structure Matrices (DSMs) to represent and analyze the dependencies among scenarios, concerns and architectural elements. Further, COSAAM extends DSMs by introducing explicit DSM patterns and heuristic rules for analyzing the impact of concerns on the architecture and for supporting the refactoring of the architecture.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	EA '09
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Early Aspects
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	13-18
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-60558-456-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1509825.1509829
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	15th Workshop on Early Aspects, EA 2009 - Charlottesville, United States Duration: 3 Mar 2009 → 3 Mar 2009 Conference number: 15 http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~nn/EA09/

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Conference	15th Workshop on Early Aspects, EA 2009
Abbreviated title	EA
Country/Territory	United States
City	Charlottesville
Period	3/03/09 → 3/03/09
Internet address	http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~nn/EA09/

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Software architecture analysis
Dependency structure matrix
Concern-oriented modeling
n/a OA procedure

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Tekinerdogan, B, Scholten, F, Hofmann, C & Aksit, M 2009, Concern-oriented analysis and refactoring of software architectures using dependency structure matrices. in EA '09: Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Early Aspects. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, pp. 13-18, 15th Workshop on Early Aspects, EA 2009, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, 3/03/09. https://doi.org/10.1145/1509825.1509829

Concern-oriented analysis and refactoring of software architectures using dependency structure matrices. / Tekinerdogan, Bedir; Scholten, Frank; Hofmann, Christian et al.
EA '09: Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Early Aspects. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, 2009. p. 13-18.

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