Abstract
Mature engineering disciplines have systematic quantified architectural design. Engineering advancement of the software engineering discipline will eventually require systematic and quantified software architectural design. Formal description techniques such as the specification and description language can help to achieve this goal. This paper presents a method to construct formal models of software architectures and to simulate them to predict the behavior, reliability, and performance of the software system. We use the quantified simulation results to evaluate alternative software architectural designs. Our experiments show that our approach identifies better designs.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1169-1178 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Computer Communications |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jul 2000 |