Software Architecture Optimization Methods: A Systematic Literature Review

Due to significant industrial demands toward software systems with increasing complexity and challenging quality requirements, software architecture design has become an important development activity and the research domain is rapidly evolving. In the last decades, software architecture optimizatio...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on software engineering 2013-05, Vol.39 (5), p.658-683
Main Authors: Aleti, A., Buhnova, B., Grunske, L., Koziolek, A., Meedeniya, I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Architecture (computers)
Communities
Computer architecture
Computer programs
Consolidation
Design engineering
Design optimization
Literature reviews
Optimization
Optimization methods
Optimization techniques
problem overview
Software
Software architecture
Software architecture optimization
Software engineering
Studies
systematic literature review
Systematic review
Systematics
Taxonomy
Vocabularies & taxonomies
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Summary:Due to significant industrial demands toward software systems with increasing complexity and challenging quality requirements, software architecture design has become an important development activity and the research domain is rapidly evolving. In the last decades, software architecture optimization methods, which aim to automate the search for an optimal architecture design with respect to a (set of) quality attribute(s), have proliferated. However, the reported results are fragmented over different research communities, multiple system domains, and multiple quality attributes. To integrate the existing research results, we have performed a systematic literature review and analyzed the results of 188 research papers from the different research communities. Based on this survey, a taxonomy has been created which is used to classify the existing research. Furthermore, the systematic analysis of the research literature provided in this review aims to help the research community in consolidating the existing research efforts and deriving a research agenda for future developments.
ISSN:0098-5589
1939-3520
DOI:10.1109/TSE.2012.64