April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
16h 53m
English
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Chapter 12. The CBAM: A Quantitative Approach to Architecture Design Decision Making
with Jai Asundi and Mark Klein
Note: Jai Asundi teaches at the University of Texas, Dallas; Mark Klein is on the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
—U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen (1896–1969)
As we saw in Chapter 11, the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) provides software architects a means of evaluating the technical tradeoffs faced while designing or maintaining a software system. In the ATAM, we are primarily investigating how well the architecture—real or proposed—has been designed with respect to the quality attributes that its stakeholders have deemed ...