Pragmatic Evaluation of Software Architectures (The Fraunhofer IESE Series on Software and Systems Engineering)

Thorough and continuous architecting is the key to overall success in software engineering, and architecture evaluation is a crucial part of it. This book presents a pragmatic architecture evaluation approach and insights gained from its application in more than 75 projects with industrial customers in the past decade. It presents context factors, empirical data, and example cases, as well as lessons learned on mitigating the risk of change through architecture evaluation.

By providing comprehensive answers to more than 100 typical questions and discussing more than 60 frequent mistakes and lessons learned, the book allows readers to not only learn how to conduct architecture evaluations and interpret its results, but also to become aware of risks such as false conclusions, manipulating data, and unsound lines of argument. It equips readers to become confident in assessing quantitative measurement results and recognize when it is better to rely on qualitative expertise.

The target readership includes both practitioners and researchers. By demonstrating its impact and providing clear guidelines, data, and examples, it encourages practitioners to conduct architecture evaluations. At the same time, it offers researchers insights into industrial architecture evaluations, which serve as the basis for guiding research in this area and will inspire future research directions.

徹底且持續的架構設計是軟體工程整體成功的關鍵，而架構評估是其中至關重要的一部分。本書介紹了一種實用的架構評估方法，以及過去十年在超過75個與工業客戶合作的項目中所獲得的見解。書中提供了上下文因素、實證數據和實例案例，以及在架構評估中降低變更風險的經驗教訓。

通過提供對100多個典型問題的全面回答，並討論60多個常見錯誤和經驗教訓，本書不僅讓讀者學習如何進行架構評估和解讀其結果，還讓他們意識到風險，如虛假結論、數據操縱和不合理的論點。它使讀者能夠自信地評估定量測量結果，並辨識何時更應依賴定性專業知識。

目標讀者包括從業人員和研究人員。通過展示其影響力並提供清晰的指南、數據和實例，它鼓勵從業人員進行架構評估。同時，它為研究人員提供了工業架構評估的見解，這將成為指導該領域研究並激發未來研究方向的基礎。