TY - GEN
T1 - Error propagation in software architectures
AU - Abdelmoez, W.
AU - Nassar, D. M.
AU - Shereshevsky, M.
AU - Gradetsky, N.
AU - Gunnalan, R.
AU - Ammar, H. H.
AU - Yu, Bo
AU - Mili, A.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - The study of software architectures is emerging as an important discipline in software engineering, due to its emphasis on large scale composition of software products, and its support for emerging software engineering paradigms suck as product line engineering, component based software engineering, and software evolution. Architectural attributes differ from code-level software attributes in that they focus on the level of components and connectors, and that they are meaningful for an architecture. In this paper, we focus on a specific architectural attribute, which is the error propagation probability throughout the architecture, i.e. the probability that an error that arises in one component propagates to other components. We introduce, analyze, and validate formulas for estimating these probabilities using architectural level information.
AB - The study of software architectures is emerging as an important discipline in software engineering, due to its emphasis on large scale composition of software products, and its support for emerging software engineering paradigms suck as product line engineering, component based software engineering, and software evolution. Architectural attributes differ from code-level software attributes in that they focus on the level of components and connectors, and that they are meaningful for an architecture. In this paper, we focus on a specific architectural attribute, which is the error propagation probability throughout the architecture, i.e. the probability that an error that arises in one component propagates to other components. We introduce, analyze, and validate formulas for estimating these probabilities using architectural level information.
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U2 - 10.1109/METRIC.2004.1357923
DO - 10.1109/METRIC.2004.1357923
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:14844309366
SN - 0769521290
T3 - Proceedings - International Software Metrics Symposium
SP - 384
EP - 393
BT - Proceedings - 10th International Symposium on Software Metrics, METRICS 2004
T2 - Proceedings - 10th International Symposium on Software Metrics, METRICS 2004
Y2 - 14 September 2004 through 16 September 2004
ER -