Applicability of Quality Attribute-Driven Architecting In the Context of Agile Software Development: A Case Study

Understanding and grasping the philosophy of architecting and considering the true purpose of it can help in driving a conclusion that architecting –if done carefullycan be an agility-enabler stage, which demands an agile mindset while analyzing and specifying its drivers; and enables acting in an agile way through implementing them, while keeping business values and easing frequent accommodation of changes. Through this paper, a framework for architecting in the context of agile software development is presented. This framework is built to overcome problems of current trends in agile architecting. Integrating architecture-centric practices into an agile process and managing effectively how and where these practices would be inserted into the process, and what actions and interactions will be between these practices and other development ones, enable the proposed framework to realize these aims, and a case study was held to help explore how this framework achieved