Platform & Quality Solutions

Abstract

The title of this session was Platform and Quality Solutions. Five papers were accepted in this session although one of the authors (Joe Bauman) was unable to attend. All of the papers assumed that there was no single best software architecture. They dealt with this assumption in a variety of fashions: the Blin et al. paper presented a process and a supporting language that is intended to help produce the architecture, the de Lange et al. and van der Linden et al. papers presented very different architectures for their product lines, the Bass et al paper presented a design method based on an understanding of quality requirements, the Purhonen paper presented a taxonomy of important quality attributes for the mobile phone domain, and the Bauman paper discussed organization issues associated with the development of a product line architecture.