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Chapter4<br />
Evaluating an Embedded S<strong>of</strong>tware<br />
Reference Architecture<br />
– Industrial Experience Report – 1<br />
Inthis chapter, we discussexperiencesgained duringevaluation <strong>of</strong> the<br />
maintainability<strong>of</strong>as<strong>of</strong>twarereferencearchitectureinuseatOcé,one<strong>of</strong>the<br />
world’sleadingcopiermanufacturers.Theevaluationisconductedusingan<br />
approachbasedontheS<strong>of</strong>twareArchitectureAnalysisMethod.Thechapter<br />
proposesavariant<strong>of</strong>thismethodthathelpstoreducetheorganisational<br />
impact<strong>of</strong>architectureevaluations. Second,weanalysetheimplications<br />
<strong>of</strong>evaluatingreferencearchitecturesasopposedtosingle-productarchitectures.<br />
Furthermore,weshareourexperience<strong>of</strong>conductingtheevaluation,<br />
drawlessonsforpractitioners,<strong>and</strong>proposenewresearchtopics.<br />
4.1 Introduction<br />
Inindustrynewproductsarerarelydevelopedfromscratch.Mostproducts<br />
arebasedonpreviousgenerations<strong>of</strong>similarproducts.Therefore,thecapability<strong>of</strong>reusinglargeparts<strong>of</strong>earlierdevelopmenteffortswhendevelopingnewproductscanincreasethedevelopmentefficiency<strong>of</strong>companiestremendously[Jacobsonetal.,1997].However,currentlymanycompanieshaveno<br />
structuredapproachforreuse,astheinventoryconductedamongseveral<br />
companiesdevelopingembeddeds<strong>of</strong>twareconfirmed(seeChapter3).<br />
1 Thischapterwaspublishedearlieras:Graaf,Bas,HylkevanDijk,<strong>and</strong>Arievan<br />
Deursen. Evaluatinganembeddeds<strong>of</strong>twarereferencearchitecture–industrialexperiencereport.<br />
InProceedings<strong>of</strong>the9 th EuropeanConferenceonS<strong>of</strong>twareMaintenance<br />
<strong>and</strong>Reengineering(CSMR2005),pages354–363.IEEEComputerSociety,2005<br />
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