Grupo Alarcos · Conference paper · 2016

A Long Way to Quality-Driven Pattern-Based Architecting

Gianantonio Me, Coral Calero Muñoz, Patricia Lago

10th European Conference on Software Architecture, (ECSA 2016) · 2016 · 5 citations (OpenAlex)

The relation between architectural patterns (or styles) and quality attributes has been widely addressed in the literature. However, the knowledge is fragmented over a wide range of heterogeneous studies. Our aim is to build a systematic body of knowledge to support architectural decision-making and design. If available, this knowledge helps architects in addressing quality requirements consciously and more explicitly, i.e. in quality-driven pattern-based design . In order to build that body of knowledge we carried out a systematic literature review. We identified 99 primary studies for the analysis. The resulting data shows a wide spectrum of approaches encompassing patterns and quality attributes. In this study we (1a) present in which way patterns and quality attributes interact and (1b) provide quantitative data on the frequency of appearance for both patterns and quality attributes; (2) give an overview of the approaches we elicited from the analysis; and (3) provide our insights regarding a specific challenge (combination of patterns). Our analysis is a first step toward a theory on the architectural patterns and quality attribute interaction.