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Episode 48: Interview Dragos Manolescua

Episode 48: Interview Dragos Manolescua

Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers vor 19 Jahren

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In this Episode we discuss software architecture evaluation with
Dragos Manolescu, an architect at Microsoft's patterns &
practices group.

We start off the discussion by trying to define what software
architecture evaluation is and when and you want to evaluate an
architecture in the system's lifecycle. We then make sure
evaluators set the expectations for the evaluation process right -
it is important to understand that architecture evaluation is
typically not primarily a review of the technology decisions made
for the architecture.

We then discuss the kinds of notations that are useful for
describing architectures, and which of these are especially helpful
for the evaluator. Next we look at the core of the architecture
evaluation task, namely, the integration of the various
stakeholders and their views. We also discuss real reviews from
reviews that are staged "for show" only.

Next in the discussion is a brief look at the tools you can use for
architecture evaluation, as well as a closer look at the various
methods for achitecture evalualtion proposed by the Software
Engineering Institute (SEI). We conclude the discussion by
outlining how architecture evaluation fits into an agile
development process.

... and finally, we briefly plug the PLOPD5 book, on which Dragos,
Markus and James Noble have been working recently :-)