Author(s)

Payel Bajpayee, Hassan Reza

Department of Computer Science, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, USA.

It has been well-documented that the software architecture of any system plays a critical role in success or failure of software intensive systems. In this paper, a method has been proposed to evaluate the software architecture’s fitness with respect to key quality attributes for a web-based system. To the end, a comparative analysis based on quality attributes scenarios and tactics is carried out to select an optimal software architecture that meets the system level requirements of a web-based system, namely, Student and Course Evaluation System (SCES). The comparative study was driven by study of quality attributes and tactics with the selected architectures to select the optimal one.

Architectural Tactics, Quality Attributes, Software Architecture, Architectural Styles

Bajpayee, P. and Reza, H. (2017) Toward Quality Attribute Driven Approach to Software Architectural Design. Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 10, 483-499. doi: 10.4236/jsea.2017.106027.