Quality of Software Architectures and Software Quality: First International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2005, and Second International Workshop on Software Quality, SOQUA 2005, Erfurt, Germany, September 20-22, 2005. Proceedings

Christine Hofmeister (auth.), Ralf Reussner, Johannes Mayer, Judith A. Stafford, Sven Overhage, Steffen Becker, Patrick J. Schroeder (eds.)3540290338, 9783540290339

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of two colocated events: the First International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA 2005) and the Second International Workshop on Software Quality (SOQUA 2005) held in Erfurt, Germany, in September 2005.

The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. For QoSA 2005 only 12 papers – of the 31 submitted – were accepted for presentation; they are concerned with research and experiences that investigate the influence a specific software architecture has on software quality aspects. The papers are organized in topical sections on software architecture evaluation, formal approaches to model-driven QoS-handling, modelling QoS in software architectures, software architectures applied, architectural design for QoS, and model-driven software reliability estimation. The 6 papers accepted for SOQUA 2005 – from 17 submissions – mainly focus on quality assurance and on software testing. They are organized in topical sections on test case selection, model-based testing, unit testing, and performance testing.

---

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Reexamining the Role of Interactions in Software Architecture….Pages 1-1
Are Successful Test Cases Useless or Not?….Pages 2-3
The Architect’s Dilemma – Will Reference Architectures Help?….Pages 106-122
Architectural Reuse in Software Systems In-house Integration and Merge – Experiences from Industry….Pages 123-139
Supporting Security Sensitive Architecture Design….Pages 140-154
Exploring Quality Attributes Using Architectural Prototyping….Pages 155-170
On the Estimation of Software Reliability of Component-Based Dependable Distributed Systems….Pages 171-187
Empirical Evaluation of Model-Based Performance Prediction Methods in Software Development….Pages 188-202
DoSAM – Domain-Specific Software Architecture Comparison Model….Pages 4-20
An Architecture-Centric Approach for Producing Quality Systems….Pages 21-37
A Model-Oriented Framework for Runtime Monitoring of Nonfunctional Properties….Pages 38-52
Predicting Mean Service Execution Times of Software Components Based on Markov Models….Pages 53-70
An XML-Based Language to Support Performance and Reliability Modeling and Analysis in Software Architectures….Pages 71-87
Formal Definition of Metrics Upon the CORBA Component Model….Pages 88-105
Automatic Test Generation for N-Way Combinatorial Testing….Pages 203-211
Automated Generation and Evaluation of Dataflow-Based Test Data for Object-Oriented Software….Pages 212-226
Automated Model-Based Testing of χ Simulation Models with TorX….Pages 227-241
Jartege: A Tool for Random Generation of Unit Tests for Java Classes….Pages 242-256
FlexTest: An Aspect-Oriented Framework for Unit Testing….Pages 257-270
Quality Assurance in Performance: Evaluating Mono Benchmark Results….Pages 271-288
Back Matter….Pages –