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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Rathfelder, Christoph"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Software industrialization and architecture certification
    (Industrialisierung des Software-Managements, 2008) Rathfelder, Christoph; Groenda, Henning; Reussner, Ralf
    The industrialization of software development induces several changes to the development process as software development becomes distributed over company borders. They cooperatively develop individual components that are later assembled to software systems. This division of responsibilities requires a stricter quality assurance and in fact, creates a setting where the certification of software products becomes increasingly interesting. Until now, there are a few software product certification approaches, as in non-component-based software development processes, the considerable effort of software certification was only rarely justified. Therefore, existing certification approaches do not consider and support the requirements posed by industrialization, namely the separation of component development (by various providers) and system development. This paper presents a software certification approach which takes these requirements into account and allows certifying individual components as well as system architectures.
  • Zeitschriftenartikel
    Towards an Architecture Maintainability Maturity Model (AM)
    (Softwaretechnik-Trends Band 28, Heft 4, 2008) Rathfelder, Christoph; Groenda, Henning
    The maintainability of software systems is a crucial point in the software lifecycle. However, assessing the quality of the software’s architecture with respect to evolution is a challenging task. The evaluation of the maintainability of a system’s architecture is often made using scenario-based techniques. These techniques require a comprehensive anticipation of future adaptations of the systems. To circumvent this problem, a scenario-independent method is desirable to assess maintainability. Additionally, the comprehensibility of the architecture for third persons which were not involved in the initial design is an important aspect in the long-term. We therefore developed the Architecture Documentation Maturity Model (AM) to assess the quality of the architecture’s documentation as this first of all influences comprehensibility. This model is a first step towards a more general approach to assess the maintainability of architectures, called Architecture Maintainability Maturity Model.