Thorough and continuous architecting is the key to overall success in software engineering and
architecture evaluation is a crucial part of it. This book presents a pragmatic architecture
evaluation approach and insights gained from its application in more than 75 projects with
industrial customers in the past decade. It presents context factors empirical data and
example cases as well as lessons learned on mitigating the risk of change through architecture
evaluation. By providing comprehensive answers to more than 100 typical questions and
discussing more than 60 frequent mistakes and lessons learned the book allows readers to not
only learn how to conduct architecture evaluations and interpret its results but also to
become aware of risks such as false conclusions manipulating data and unsound lines of
argument. It equips readers to become confident in assessing quantitative measurement results
and recognize when it is better to rely on qualitative expertise. The target readership
includes both practitioners and researchers. By demonstrating its impact and providing clear
guidelines data and examples it encourages practitioners to conduct architecture
evaluations. At the same time it offers researchers insights into industrial architecture
evaluations which serve as the basis for guiding research in this area and will inspire future
research directions.
