A Trustworthiness Evaluation Method for Software Architectures Based on the Principle of Maximum Entropy (POME) and the Grey Decision-Making Method (GDMM)

• Main Author: Rong Jiang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2014-09-01
• Series: Entropy
• Subjects: software architecture; trustworthiness evaluation; Principle of Maximum Entropy (POME); Grey Decision-making Method (GDMM)
• Online Access: http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/16/9/4818

As the early design decision-making structure, a software architecture plays a key role in the final software product quality and the whole project. In the software design and development process, an effective evaluation of the trustworthiness of a software architecture can help making scientific and reasonable decisions on the architecture, which are necessary for the construction of highly trustworthy software. In consideration of lacking the trustworthiness evaluation and measurement studies for software architecture, this paper provides one trustworthy attribute model of software architecture. Based on this model, the paper proposes to use the Principle of Maximum Entropy (POME) and Grey Decision-making Method (GDMM) as the trustworthiness evaluation method of a software architecture and proves the scientificity and rationality of this method, as well as verifies the feasibility through case analysis.