Software architecture analysis method (SAAM) is a method used in
software architecture
Software architecture is the set of structures needed to reason about a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. Each structure comprises software elements, relations among them, and properties of both elements a ...
to evaluate a system architecture. It was the first documented software architecture analysis method, and was developed in the mid 1990s to analyze a system for modifiability, but it is useful for testing any non-functional aspect.
SAAM was a precursor to the
architecture tradeoff analysis method.
See also
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ARID
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Architectural analytics
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Software architecture
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