Using Adapted Software Architecture Development Methods in a SOA Context

This paper presents a proposal for adapting the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) architectural development methods (QAW, ADD, ATAM and V&B)to the context of small software development teams.The paper presents the motivations for creating the adapted methods and the adaptation proposal of the different methods, including examples of the templates that support them. The adapted methods are evaluated by observing 2 student teams perform the architectural design of an application based in a variant of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Finally, the paper provides guidelines for integrating the adapted methods to the TSPi, specifically explaining where they fit with respect to requirements development and high-level design phases.