Analysis and Evaluation of Software Architecture by Using Ontology

Software architecture has a significant role in the lifecycle of any application software in which it must be appraised effectively. Quality characteristics, risks and non-risks, tactics or architectural decisions are elements that must be noticed during the software architecture assessment and analysis.Software architecture assessment includes evaluating of architectural decisions attributes and combination possibility of these attributes to access the expected quality features. In the complex architectures usually by using of different architectural methods which are the results of best experiments, is trying to access to these attributes. In most of scenario-based architecture evaluation methods such as reconciliation-based architecture analysis, the way of doing the architecture decisions analysis and combination possibility to access to quality attributes, has not been noticed but only the steps and sequences of processes, input/outputs is emphasized.In this paper, a new method for supporting the software architecture evaluation is proposed and has been tried to more clarify the circumstance of the analysis steps during the evaluation depend on the experiences and knowledge. In this method, reusing and sharing of architectural knowledge is enforced and therefore two types of anthologies have been offered that the attribute-based architectural styles have significant roles in construction of them. Finally, to show the effectiveness of the proposed method in different conditions, three sample surveys have been considered and analyzed

Keywords:

software architecture , architecture evaluation , ontology , architectural decisions , architectural styles