FYI: Fw: [General] master thesis defence, Xin Shen, Wed. March 27, 16:00, H 601

I'm inclined to go to that thesis defense. Sounds
quite interesting :)

-s

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From: "MONKIEWICZ Halina" <halina(at)cs(dot)concordia(dot)ca>
To: <csseminar(at)cs(dot)concordia(dot)ca>; <khendek(at)ece(dot)concordia(dot)ca>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:14 PM
Subject: [General] master thesis defence, Xin Shen, Wed. March 27, 16:00, H 601

> MASTER THESIS DEFENCE
>
>
> SPEAKER: Xin Shen
>
> TITLE: An Architecture Tradeoff Analysis of PostgreSQL
> System
>
> DATE: Wednesday, March 27, 2002
>
> TIME: 16:00
>
> PLACE: H 601
>
>
> ABSTRACT
>
>
> The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method(ATAM) was develped by R.Kazman, M.Klein
> and P.Clements to evaluate early architectural decisions of software\ development
> in terms of quality attributes to avoid expensive architectural mistakes.
>
> PostgreSQL developed in the University of California was a pioneer of many modern
> RDBMS systems. It is now an open source project.
>
> We applied ATAM to the postgreSQL project in light of identifying the
> architectural features and possible pitfalls in the architecture of similar DBMS
> systems. The result shows that we identifed some sensitive points, tradeoff
> points and risks of postgreSQL although we did have some difficulties when
> extracting precise quality attributes. This work proves the effectiveness of
> ATAM method and explores the possible way to use ATAM on general purpose software.