Examining the Impact of Platform Properties on Quality Attributes

TL;DR

This paper analyzes how different virtualization and cloud platform characteristics influence key quality attributes like efficiency, resource elasticity, and security, highlighting virtualization platforms' significant impact on these qualities.

Contribution

It identifies and evaluates the architecturally significant features of virtualization and cloud platforms and their effects on quality attributes, providing insights into platform design considerations.

Findings

Efficiency, resource elasticity, and security are highly impacted by platform characteristics.

Virtualization platforms have the most significant influence on quality attributes.

The study enhances understanding of platform design's effect on application quality.

Abstract

We examine and bring out the architecturally significant characteristics of various virtualization and cloud oriented platforms. The impact of such characteristics on the ability of guest applications to achieve various quality attributes (QA) has also been determined by examining existing body of architecture knowledge. We observe from our findings that efficiency, resource elasticity and security are among the most impacted QAs, and virtualization platforms exhibit the maximum impact on various QAs.