The module architecture evaluation (ARCEVAL) – apart from the clari­fi­cation of important basic terms, condi­tions, and goals – parti­cu­larly deals with the requirements in architecture evaluation. Here the concept of quality as well as associated quality charac­te­ristics and scenarios play a major role. Parti­ci­pants also learn how to success­fully prepare and conduct evaluation workshops. Reworking and utiliz­ation of results with the associated risks, a meaningful documen­tation of results and the subse­quent commu­ni­cation of these results will also be examined.

The evaluation of existing systems or their parts is taught to the parti­ci­pants by learning to derive scenarios from existing problems, to verify the imple­men­tation of the architecture and to apply appro­priate metrics and tools for architecture evaluation.