Supporting Early Architectural Decision-Making Through Tradeoff Analysis: A Study with Volvo Cars
As automotive companies increasingly move operations to the cloud, they need to carefully make architectural decisions. Currently, architectural decisions are made ad-hoc and depend on the experience of the involved architects. Recent research has proposed the use of data-driven techniques that help humans to understand complex design spaces and make thought-through decisions. This paper presents a design science study in which we explored the use of such techniques in collaboration with architects at Volvo Cars. We show how a software architecture can be simulated to make more principled design decisions and allow for architectural tradeoff analysis. Concretely, we apply machine learning-based techniques such as Principal Component Analysis, Decision Tree Learning, and radar plots. Our findings show that the tradeoff analysis performed on the data from simulated architectures gave imoportant insights into what the tradeoffs are and what design decisions shall be taken early on to arrive at a high-quality architecture.
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14:00 - 15:30 | Processes, Requirements, and ArchitectureIndustry Papers / Journal First / Research Papers / Demonstrations at Acerola Chair(s): Annibale Panichella Delft University of Technology | ||
14:00 18mTalk | On the Usefulness of Automatically Generated Microservice Architectures Journal First Luiz Carvalho Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thelma Elita Colanzi State University of Maringa, Brazil, Wesley Assunção North Carolina State University, Alessandro Garcia Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Juliana Alves Pereira Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Marcos Kalinowski Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rafael de Mello Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Maria Julia de Lima Tecgraf Institute, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Carlos Lucena Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
14:18 18mTalk | An LGPD Compliance Inspection Checklist to Assess IoT Solutions Industry Papers Ivonildo Pereira Gomes Neto Federal University of Pernambuco, João Mendes Federal University of Maranhão, Waldemar Pires Ferreira Neto Rural Federal University of Pernambuco, Luis Jorge Enrique Rivero Cabrejos Federal University of Maranhão, Brazil, Davi Viana Federal University of Maranhão, Sérgio Soares Universidade Federal de Pernambuco | ||
14:36 18mTalk | Automated Smell Detection and Recommendation in Natural Language Requirements Journal First Alvaro Veizaga University of Luxembourg, Seung Yeob Shin University of Luxembourg, Lionel Briand University of Ottawa, Canada; Lero centre, University of Limerick, Ireland | ||
14:54 9mTalk | Supporting Early Architectural Decision-Making Through Tradeoff Analysis: A Study with Volvo Cars Industry Papers Karl Öqvist Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Jacob Messinger Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Rebekka Wohlrab Chalmers University of Technology | ||
15:03 9mTalk | MicroKarta: Visualising Microservice Architectures Demonstrations Oscar Manglaras University of Adelaide, Alex Farkas University of Adelaide, Peter Fule Swordfish Computing, Christoph Treude Singapore Management University, Markus Wagner Monash University, Australia | ||
15:12 18mTalk | Understanding Developers' Discussions and Perceptions on Non-Functional Requirements: The Case of the Spring Ecosystem Research Papers Anderson Oliveira Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), João Lucas Correia Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Wesley Assunção North Carolina State University, Juliana Alves Pereira Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rafael de Mello Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Daniel Coutinho Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Caio Barbosa Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Paulo Vítor C. F. Libório Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Alessandro Garcia Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) DOI Pre-print | ||