APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EVALUATING OF SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE

摘要

A device and a method for evaluating of a software architecture are provided to evaluate whether the architecture of a series of software products or a single product architecture derived from the architecture satisfy a nonfunctional requirement of a product group or a specific product, and correctly/typically evaluate quality related to the nonfunctional requirement. An architecture maker(100) describes architecture design information including the software architecture and the nonfunctional requirement by using a UML(Unified Modeling Language). An architecture design model generator(110) generates an architecture design model according to the architecture design information. A tradeoff analyzer(120) analyzes tradeoff among the nonfunctional requirements satisfied by the architecture based on the architecture design model. A converter(130) converts the analyzed architecture into a different typical description according to a kind of the nonfunctional requirement. A tester(140) evaluates whether the converted architecture satisfies the nonfunctional requirement.