A case study on architectural maturity evaluation: Experience in the consumer electronics domain

Abstract

This paper introduces our experience of applying an architecture evaluation model to enhance quality attributes of product line in the consumer electronics field. We proposed an evaluation model for architecture design and performed assessment on several platforms to evaluate reusability and maintainability as a core asset of product line. Former researches such as PULSETM, FEF(Families Evaluation Framework), and PLPF(Product Line Practice Framework) provide the whole spectrum of building, deploying and maintaining software product lines based on the BAPO(Business, Architecture, Process and Organization). But we focused on software architecture design itself further because we are mainly concerned with design and implementation issues thus concentrating on the architecture criteria. In this paper, we will provide the practitioners with an experience of our approach, core concept and lessons learned relies on several case studies on design practices.