Queueing Modeling in the Course in Software Architecture Design

Abstract

The studying of dependencies between architecture design decision and the quality attribute is difficult for students because of the high level of abstractness. The article introduces an idea to use the queueing modeling for examining the software efficiency of the different decisions. Because of study purposes, the only requirement for the model is a similarity to architecture topology; the model parameters are chosen to provide comparability of analyzed decisions. In the article, there are discussed the result of the queueing modeling involvement in the course in Software Architecture Design and defined the directions of future work.