Ralf H. Reussner

Judith A. Stafford

Steffen Becker

Johannes Mayer

Sven Overhage

Patrick J. Schroeder

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of two colocated events: the First International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA 2005) and the Second International Workshop on Software Quality (SOQUA 2005) held in Erfurt, Germany, in September 2005. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. For QoSA 2005 only 12 papers - of the 31 submitted - were accepted for presentation; they are concerned with research and experiences that investigate the influence a specific software architecture has on software quality aspects. The papers are organized in topical sections on software architecture evaluation, formal approaches to model-driven QoS-handling, modelling QoS in software architectures, software architectures applied, architectural design for QoS, and model-driven software reliability estimation. The 6 papers accepted for SOQUA 2005 - from 17 submissions - mainly focus on quality assurance and on software testing. They are organized in topical sections on test case selection, model-based testing, unit testing, and performance testing.

First International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2005 and Second International Workshop on Software Quality, SOQUA 2005, Erfurt, Germany, September, 20-22, 2005, Proceedings

Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality

Stephanie Klein

Sebastian Scholz

Andreas Hahn

Andreas Bellof

Uwe Bingel

Philipp Boateng

Marcus Braukmann

Gabriele Breuninger

Nicole Buch

Hasti Baharak Clausen

Sandra Echemendia

Ralf Dümmel

Alexander Felder

Carsten Fuchs

Heike Fuckert

Tobias Greff

Jaewoo Hyun

Thomas Hubbuch

Dr. Katrin Hegendörfer

Astrid Kohlwes

Viet Le

Christiane Kuhlmann

Gerd Marco Martschke

Falko Oberhöller

Klaus Offermann

Christina Rosenberg

Marc Schinschetzki

Carola Schönherr

Jeanette Spanier

Lars Spiering

Ronald ter Veer

Antoanela Tocari

Tom von Bieren

Von der Entscheidung zum Erfolg

Atlas der Entscheider

Robert Heinrich

Jens Happe

Anne Koziolek

A new, quantitative architecture simulation approach to software design that circumvents costly testing cycles by modeling quality of service in early design states. Too often, software designers lack an understanding of the effect of design decisions on such quality attributes as performance and reliability. This necessitates costly trial-and-error testing cycles, delaying or complicating rollout. This book presents a new, quantitative architecture simulation approach to software design, which allows software engineers to model quality of service in early design stages. It presents the first simulator for software architectures, Palladio, and shows students and professionals how to model reusable, parametrized components and configured, deployed systems in order to analyze service attributes. The text details the key concepts of Palladio's domain-specific modeling language for software architecture quality and presents the corresponding development stage. It describes how quality information can be used to calibrate architecture models from which detailed simulation models are automatically derived for quality predictions. Readers will learn how to approach systematically questions about scalability, hardware resources, and efficiency. The text features a running example to illustrate tasks and methods as well as three case studies from industry. Each chapter ends with exercises, suggestions for further reading, and “takeaways” that summarize the key points of the chapter. The simulator can be downloaded from a companion website, which offers additional material. The book can be used in graduate courses on software architecture, quality engineering, or performance engineering. It will also be an essential resource for software architects and software engineers and for practitioners who want to apply Palladio in industrial settings.

The Palladio Approach

Modeling and Simulating Software Architectures

Frantisek Plasil

Models are used in all kinds of engineering disciplines to abstract from the various details of the modelled entity in order to focus on a speci?c aspect. Like a blueprint in civil engineering, a software architecture providesan abstraction from the full software system’s complexity. It allows software designers to get an overview on the system underdevelopmentandtoanalyzeitsproperties.Inthissense,modelsarethefoundation needed for software development to become a true engineering discipline. Especially when reasoning on a software system’s extra-functional properties, its software architecture carries the necessary information for early, design-time analyses. These analyses take the software architecture as input and can be used to direct the design process by allowing a systematic evaluation of different design alternatives. For example, they can be used to cancel out decisions which would lead to architecture - signs whose implementation would not comply with extra-functionalrequirements like performance or reliability constraints. Besides such quality attributes directly visible to the end user, internal quality attributes, e.g., maintainability, also highly depend on the system’s architecture. In addition to the above-mentioned technical aspects of software architecture m- els, non-technical aspects, especially project management-related activities, require an explicit software architecture model. The models are used as input for cost esti- tions, time-, deadline-, and resource planning for the development teams. They serve the project management activities of planning, executing, and controlling, which are necessary to deliver high-quality software systems in time and within the budget.

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

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Renewable Energy Technologies

Nicole Bernstein

Martina Przybilla

Claudia Girnuweit

Siegfried Drews

Margarita von Mayen

Der neue Titel aus der Chefsache-Buchreihe von Peter Buchenau behandelt das Thema Veränderungsprozesse. Sechs Trainer, Berater oder Coaches tragen ihre Erfahrungen mit beruflichen Veränderungsprozessen zusammen. Sie beschreiben, warum sie sich verändert haben, wie ihr berufliches Umfeld darauf reagiert hat, warum der Schritt wichtig war und wie man erkennt, dass man Veränderungsbedarf hat. Mit konkreten Tipps und Checklisten. Die Chefsache-Reihe wurde von Peter Buchenau begründet und enthält alles, was für Führungskräfte wichtig ist. In unregelmäßigen Abständen lädt er Gastautoren ein, in dieser Reihe zu aktuellen Managementthemen zu publizieren – Expertenwissen aus erster Hand.

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