Architecture Level Software Quality Prediction

. This paper describes a method for prediction of software qualities from the software architecture level using scenarios. The method takes the specification of the architecture as input and generates a prediction of the modified volume for the average maintenance task. The scenarios are used to analyse the architecture and to derive a prediction of the maintainability. The method is based on experiences and ideas from the design of a software architecture for a haemo dialysis machine. This far the method has been designed to incorporate only the prediction of maintainability. However, it is ongoing work to incorporate other common software qualities into the method. Experiments for evaluation and validation of the method are ongoing and future work. 1 Introduction One of the biggest issues in software development today is the software quality. The biggest problem is no longer to design and implement the correct functions in products. Instead, software qualities, e.g. performance, rel..