Investigating metrics for architectural assessment

Author

Avritzer, Alberto ; Weyuker, Elaine J.

Author_Institution

AT&T Network Comput. Services, Red Hill, NJ, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

20-21 Nov 1998

Firstpage

4

Lastpage

10

Abstract

An empirical study is described using data collected during 50 architecture audits of large industrial telecommunications systems performed over a period of two years. The goal of this study was to develop metrics that could be used to differentiate between projects that are at high risk of failure and those at low risk. These metrics would be computed following an architecture audit before coding has begun, allowing measures to be taken to correct identified problems very early in the development lifecycle. Detailed information is presented about the use of the proposed risk prediction metric for seven of the systems for which we provided architecture audits

Keywords

auditing; software architecture; software metrics; telecommunication computing; architectural assessment; audits; high risk; industrial telecommunications systems; risk prediction metric; software development lifecycle; software metrics; system failure; Capacity planning; Communication industry; Computer architecture; Computer industry; Computer networks; Guidelines; Software architecture; Software performance; Software systems; Telecommunication computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Metrics Symposium, 1998. Metrics 1998. Proceedings. Fifth International

Conference_Location

Bethesda, MD

Print_ISBN

0-8186-9201-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/METRIC.1998.731220

Filename

731220