Haemo dialysis software architecture design experiences

In this paper we present the experiences and architecture from a research project conducted in cooperation with two industry partners. The goal of the project was to reengineer an existing system for haemo dialysis machines into a domain specific software architecture. Our main experiences are (1) a...

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Main Authors: Bengtsson, PerOlof, Bosch, Jan
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Application software
Applied computing > Life and medical sciences > Computational biology
Applied computing > Life and medical sciences > Genetics
Applied computing > Life and medical sciences > Systems biology
Blood
Computer architecture
Computer industry
Design methodology
Permission
Process design
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Designing software > Software implementation planning > Software design techniques
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software development process management
Software architecture
Software design
Software quality
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Summary:In this paper we present the experiences and architecture from a research project conducted in cooperation with two industry partners. The goal of the project was to reengineer an existing system for haemo dialysis machines into a domain specific software architecture. Our main experiences are (1) architecture design is an iterative and incremental process, (2) software quality requires a context, (3) quality attribute assessment methods are too detailed for use during architectural design, (4) application domain concepts are not the best abstractions, (5) aesthetics guides the architect in finding potential weaknesses in the architecture, (6) it is extremely hard to decide when an architecture design is ready, and (7) documenting software architectures is an important problem. We also present the architecture and design rational to give a basis for our experiences. We evaluated the resulting architecture by implementing a prototype application.
ISSN:0270-5257
1558-1225
DOI:10.1145/302405.302684