| Software architecture analysis is a central activity in software development.
Multiple software architecture analysis techniques exist, which differ in cost and
complexity, the addressed stakeholders and the supported kinds of analysis. To support
comprehensive software architecture analysis, multiple analysis techniques need to be
applied within one project. Currently, available techniques are not integrated with each
other and require the use of different processes, tools, and of different means for
architecture representation. This makes the application of different, though potentially
complementing analysis techniques time- and resource-intensive, and thus costly. In this
paper we present an approach that combines multiple analysis techniques to support
comprehensive, integrated and cost-efficient software architecture analysis. Our
approach combines analysis functionality provided by software architecture management
tools, architecture description languages, and scenario-based analysis techniques. |