Mining Architecture Tactics and Quality Attributes knowledge in Stack Overflow

Context: Architecture Tactics (ATs) are architectural building blocks that provide general solutions for addressing Quality Attributes (QAs) issues. Mining and analyzing QA-AT knowledge can help the software architecture community better understand design. However, manually capturing mining this is labor-intensive difficult. Objective: Using Stack Overflow (SO) as our source, main goals to effectively mine such knowledge; have some sense of how developers use ATs with respect QA concerns from related discussions. Methods: We applied a semi-automatic dictionary-based approach extract posts in SO. With mined posts, we identified relationships between QAs. Results: Our allow us an F-measure 0.865 Performance 82.2%. approach, able discover synonyms QAs used by designers, which apply address quality requirements. Conclusions: make two contributions work: First, demonstrated SO posts; Second, little-known design grouped considerations aid architects tactics decisions.