ADS: Architectural Decision Supporter

Following the advancements in convergent devices, the trend of rapid increase in software complexity and the contrastingly shortened software product lifecycle have introduced new challenges to which the transformation from legacy single-core based system to multi-core based system have emerged. Unfortunately, software development process which provides adequate support for multi-core parallelization has not been around to keep up with the speed of advancements in multi-core based hardware systems. In this paper, to address this need, we propose a development process supporting transformation of existing single-core based software to a multi-core equivalent, and discuss the overall cost-saving potential in introducing automation tools for supporting applicable activities within the proposed process.