There are limited tools to evaluate a microservice architecture and no common definition of how the architecture should be designed. Moreover, developing systems with microservices introduces additional complexity to the software architecture. That, together with the fact the systems are becoming more complex has led to a desire for architecture evaluation methods. In this thesis a set of quality attributes measured by structural metrics are used to evaluate Scania's IoT Offboard platform. By implementing a metrics evaluation program the quality of the software architecture can be improved. Also, metrics can assist developers and architects while they are becoming more efficient since they better understand how performance is measured, i.e. which quality attributes are the most important and how these are measured. For Scania's IoT Offboard platform the studied quality attributes are listed in decreasing importance: flexibility, reusability and understandability. All the microservices are loosely coupled in the platform, which results in a loosely coupled architecture. This indicates a flexible, reusable and understandable system, in terms of coupling. Furthermore, the architecture is decentralized, i.e. the system is unflexible and difficult to change. The other metrics were lacking a reference scale, hence they will act as a point of reference for future measurements as the architecture evolves. To improve the flexibility, reusability and understandability of the architecture the large microservices should be divided into several smaller microservices. Also aggregators should be utilized more to make the system more flexible.

This work addresses the issue of data boxes information system, which supports electronic communication between public authorities and other bodies. Aim of the work is to identify measure and evaluate the effectiveness of the data boxes at selected public authorities when processing received and sent documents. The effectiveness is detected by using the proposed metrics and also based on the analysis conducted in order to examine the processing of documents at selected institutions. The effectiveness of data boxes is being researched at the Municipal Office Dub nad Moravou and the Czech Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority. The information needed for the process analysis and the data required for evaluating the effectiveness of the implementation of the proposed metrics were obtained from the staff of those institutions. The work is divided into four parts. The first part is a thorough description of the data boxes information system. The functionality, use, technical solutions and legislations of data boxes are described based on available information. The second part focuses on the description and analysis of selected public authorities and on the way they process received and outgoing mail. In the third part of the work appropriate metrics to assess the effectiveness of the data boxes are proposed, followed by implementation of two-phase measurements. In the fourth section the effectiveness of the data boxes is evaluated based on the measurements conducted at selected public authorities. The main contribution of this work is that it will be the first evaluation of the effectiveness of the data boxes in selected subjects approximately one month after the official launch. Another benefit is the proposal of process for the evaluation of the effectiveness of a very specific new information system within the body and a comprehensive description of the data boxes information system.

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