Evaluating Domain-Driven Architectural Designs and Non-Functional Architectural Attributes for Windows Phone 8 Mobile Applications

摘要

Most IT companies are interested in investigating new mo-bile technologies as mobile devices are noticeably prevalentthese days. In this study, we collaborated with Volvo IT toidentify the extent of conformance to domain-driven archi-tectures when developing Windows Phone 8 (WP8) applica-tions, as well as to nd out what non-functional attributescan be applied to these applications.We took the Action Design Research (ADR) strategy to de-velop a purchasing order system prototype and investigatethe applicability of security, performance, and maintainabil-ity to Windows Phone 8 applications. We found that whilethe Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern brings highmaintainability to WP8 applications, these applications canstill conform to a domain-driven architecture with, at least,the user interface, domain, communication, and service com-ponents, and ful ll high levels of security as well as perfor-mance.Due to the limited time frame of the study, we did not con-sider other non-functional attributes, such as integrability,robustness, and simplicity, for WP8 applications. Those at-tributes can be investigated in future research.