The architectural template method: templating architectural knowledge to efficiently conduct quality‐of‐service analyses

Software architects plan the realization of software systems by assessing design decisions on the basis of architectural models. Using these models as input, architectural analyses assess the impact of architects' decisions on quality‐of‐service properties. While the creation of suitable architectural models requires software architects to apply complex architectural knowledge, for example, in the form of established architectural styles and patterns, current architectural analyses lack support for directly reusing such knowledge. This lack points to an unused potential to make the work of software architects more effective and efficient.

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