A survey on software architecture evaluation methods

Software architecture evaluation in software systems is an important practice to develop quality software. Evaluation is performed to analyze software architecture to reduce the possibility of risks and verify quality requirements, which are addressed during software design. Several methods and techniques have been proposed to evaluate software architecture based on quality attributes. This paper presents the comparative analysis of scenario-based software architecture evaluation methods using taxonomy. The observations will be useful to design an effective architecture evaluation method.

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