Automatic Selection of RIA Software Architectures Using Quality Models

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) involve complex architectural design decisions, which greatly affect the quality of the final application. Unfortunately, quality requirements tend to be ignored during the architectural design process. This article reports a quality-driven approach for the systematic construction of RIA architectures. Our approach integrates model-driven development and software product lines principles to select and derive in a semiautomatic way the most suitable RIA architecture based on a set of predefined quality requirements. To show the feasibility of this approach, the method has been applied to a real scenario.