Experiences of Performance Tuning Software Product Family Architectures Using a Scenario-Driven Approach

10th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) - Christian Del Rosso - Performance is an important non functional quality attribute of a software system. The ability to deliver the expected performance objectives comes from a careful design and attention to detail. - Unfortunately, performance is not always considered at the beginning. - However, once built, software performance can still be improved by evaluating and tuning the software architecture. When analyzing the performance of a software product family, an understanding of its architectural properties is needed. - A software product family architecture's strength is based on common assets, platforms and source code shared by its family members. - Software product family design allows improved time-to-market, software quality and software reuse. At the same time, variability is the factor to instantiate different products and the handling of the variation points must be carefully managed. - In this paper I present a scenario-driven approach for analyzing the performance of software product family architectures. - The process of performance tuning has been applied to a Nokia software product family architecture and two case studies are presented. The evaluation process and the tradeoffs of evaluating software product family architectures are discussed. - Our website uses cookies to help improve your experience. Find out more by reading our - .