Quality Evaluation of PaaS Cloud Application Design Using
Generated Prototypes

D 2017

Quality Evaluation of PaaS Cloud Application Design Using Generated Prototypes

GEŠVINDR, David, Barbora BÜHNOVÁ and Ondřej GASIOR

Basic information

Original name

Quality Evaluation of PaaS Cloud Application Design Using Generated Prototypes

Authors

GEŠVINDR, David (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Barbora BÜHNOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Ondřej GASIOR (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Neuveden, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA), p. 31-40, 10 pp. 2017

Publisher

IEEE

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14330/17:00097438

Organization unit

Faculty of Informatics

ISBN

978-1-5090-5729-0

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSA.2017.43

UT WoS

000403402100004

Keywords in English

cloud computing; software architecture; prototype generation

Abstract

V originále

With the increasing popularity of Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud, software architects need to face new challenges of software architecture design, efficiently integrating the benefits of PaaS services. In this respect, early quality evaluation of the designed PaaS cloud application is crucial to mitigate the risk of later architectural changes due to violation of quality requirements (such as throughput, response time and scalability). Despite the emergence of architectural tactics and patterns usable for the design of PaaS cloud applications, it is challenging for the software architects to navigate in a rich set of offered services, variability of the PaaS cloud environment and quality conflicts in existing tactics, which makes it almost impossible to predicts the overall application quality without time-consuming implementation of application prototypes. In this paper, we take advantage of the cloud elasticity and introduce a design-time quality evaluation technique for PaaS applications based on automatically generated application prototypes, which are deployed to the cloud and repeatedly evaluated in the context of multiple quality attributes and environment configurations. As part of this work, we present an abstract application model designed to carefully select the details with high performance impact, and present the implementation of our tool generating the prototypes of PaaS cloud applications.

Links

LG13010, research and development project

Name: Zastoupení ČR v European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (Acronym: ERCIM-CZ)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR

MUNI/A/0992/2016, interní kód MU

Name: Zapojení studentů Fakulty informatiky do mezinárodní vědecké komunity (Acronym: SKOMU)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

GEŠVINDR, David, Barbora BÜHNOVÁ and Ondřej GASIOR. Quality Evaluation of PaaS Cloud Application Design Using Generated Prototypes. Online. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA). Neuveden: IEEE, 2017, p. 31-40. ISBN 978-1-5090-5729-0. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSA.2017.43.

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GEŠVINDR, David, Barbora BÜHNOVÁ and Ondřej GASIOR. Quality Evaluation of PaaS Cloud Application Design Using Generated Prototypes. Online. In \textit{2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA)}. Neuveden: IEEE, 2017, p.~31-40. ISBN~978-1-5090-5729-0. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSA.2017.43.

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