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A guideline for software architecture selection based on ISO 25010 quality related characteristics

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As the complexity of software increases, the choice of the appropriate software architecture becomes a critical task. This paper provides a guideline for selecting the appropriate software architecture based on pertinent ISO 25010 quality characteristics. The guideline was established through an analytical survey of 113 papers published from 2010 to 2014. Through this survey, we first identified a set of commonly used software architectures in the software engineering literature. Secondly, we applied the Formal Concept Analysis technique to classify each one of these architectures according to ISO 25010 quality characteristics. Finally, we identified the relationships among ISO 25010 quality characteristics, which in turn helped us to develop a guideline on how to select the appropriate software architecture with respect to ISO 25010 quality characteristics. In order to make sure about the validation of the proposed guideline, a survey with industrial experts is in progress. Data were collected from two companies working in the software development field (ST2i and Telnet).

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We would like to record our thanks to the companies: Telnet in Sfax-Tunisia and ST2i in Tunis-Tunisia, for their participation in the investigation and for sharing their perspectives and experiences.

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Appendices

Appendix 1

Table 5 presents the classification of the selected papers for this study in respect to the software architecture type and the ISO 25010 quality characteristics.

Table 5 ISO 25010 Quality characteristics for SA type-Summary of quantitative results
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Appendix 2

Table 6 identifies the usability of the sub-characteristics of “Functional suitability” which is being the most rarely used quality characteristic.

Table 6 Functional Suitability sub-characteristics for SA type-Summary of the quantitative results
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Table 7 presents the classification of the sub-characteristics of the quality characteristic “performance efficiency”. “Capacity” is the widely used sub-characteristic, whereas “time behaviour” is the rarely used sub-characteristic.

Table 7 Performance Efficiency sub-characteristics for SA type-Summary of the quantitative results
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Table 8 provides a classification of sub-characteristics of the quality characteristic “Usability”. Most of the sub-characteristics of “Usability” are rarely used in the. “Accessibility” is the most used sub-characteristic.

Table 8 Usability sub-characteristics for SA type-Summary of the quantitative results
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Table 9 identifies the usefulness of the sub-characteristics of the “Compatibility” quality characteristic. “Interoperability” is one of the important advantages of SOA. This is why most researches focused on “Interoperability” used by SOA.

Table 9 Compatibility sub-characteristics for SA type-Summary of the quantitative results
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As presented in Table 10, the sub-characteristics of “Reliability” have been widely used in the literature especially for SOA, and “Availability” is the most used sub-characteristic. In addition, many researchers mentioned that “SOA introduces more challenges to achieve: data availability and reliability”. This is especially the case for the availability of complex services in environment where concurrent requests should be satisfied.

Table 10 Reliability sub-characteristics for SA type-Summary of the quantitative results
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Table 11 presents the interest of the selected papers in the “Portability” sub-characteristics. Most of the selected papers focused on the “Adaptability” sub-characteristic used by SOA.

Table 11 Portability sub-characteristics for SA type-Summary of the quantitative results
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Table 12 presents the classification of the selected papers based on the “Security” sub-characteristic which, as expected, has been widely used with SOA because “Security” is a critical problem in SOA. Researchers proposed the use of “application-independent protocols to develop a secure SOA” (e.g. Transport Layer Security “TLS” or Web service security protocols). These protocols can guarantee two sub-characteristics: “Confidentiality” and “Integrity”.

Table 12 Security sub-characteristics for SA type-Summary of the quantitative results
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As shown in Table 13, the sub-characteristics for “Maintainability” have been widely discussed in the literature in comparison with other sub-characteristics. In addition, most of the SOA-based papers focused on Reusability and Testability. In fact, Reusability is a main advantage of SOA due to the independence between the various services, which makes the modification or the replacement of a service by another an easy task. However, testing SOA applications is a challenging task due to the high dynamism, the low coupling and the low testability of services in isolation. This in fact prompted some approaches to investigate how to improve SOA testability.

Table 13 Maintainability sub-characteristics for SA type-Summary of the quantitative results
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Table 14 presents the interest of the selected papers on other quality attributes un-supported by ISO 25010 such as scalability, flexibility, etc.

Table 14 Quality attributes (uncovered by ISO/IEC 25010) for SA type-Summary of the quantitative results
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Haoues, M., Sellami, A., Ben-Abdallah, H. et al. A guideline for software architecture selection based on ISO 25010 quality related characteristics. Int J Syst Assur Eng Manag 8 (Suppl 2), 886–909 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-016-0546-8

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