Examining the Impact of Platform Properties on Quality Attributes
This provides insights for architects designing applications on cloud platforms, though it appears to be an incremental analysis of existing knowledge.
The study analyzed how virtualization and cloud platform characteristics affect application quality attributes, finding that efficiency, resource elasticity, and security are most impacted, with virtualization platforms showing the greatest overall effect.
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.