Evaluation and classifying software architecture styles due to quality attributes

Abstract

One of the important concepts in software architecture evaluation is measurement of software quality attributes. From 1970 the Software Engineering Institutes pay attention to some of these quality attributes such as performance, security, availability, reusability and so on. In this paper we try to show most of quality attributes for all kind of software architecture styles and then summarized its goals, properties and related quality attributes. Then all kind of quality attributes and metrics of software were investigated. Finally we introduce a framework for all quality attributes in each style and present samples of each architecture styles. Regarding to performed evaluation in this paper we will propose that what kind of architecture styles is suitable for which applications.