Architecture Based Ripple Effect Analysis: a Software Quality Maintenance Perspective

one of the major challenges for software developer is to fulfill the quality requirements of the software systems. This emphasis on, software quality has some serious implications in terms of customer satisfaction and system acceptance. On the other hand, software architecture as an artifact can be used to deal with software qualities such as maintainability, performance and reliability etc. With rapid expansion on software systems to cater to the need of automation, software intensive systems are becoming large and complex. This is enhancing our emphasis on system quality which ultimately gives rise to the need for software quality maintenance. This software quality maintenance is not without ripple effect cost. This paper is an attempt to analyse architecture based quality maintenance ripple effect and for this purpose, a process for architecture based quality maintenance ripple effect analysis is proposed. A technique for ripple effect analysis is described.