This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2006, held in Västerås, Sweden in June 2006, co-located with the 9th International Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering, CBSE 2006. Coverage includes architecture evaluation, managing and applying architectural knowledge, and processes for supporting architecture quality.

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Abstracts of the Keynotes.- Expanding the Scope of Software Product Families: Problems and Alternative Approaches.- Composing with Style - Components Meet Architecture.- Abstracts of the Tutorials.- Documentation Principles and Practices That You Can Live with.- Model-Based Software Development with Eclipse.- Software Architecture Analysis and Evaluation.- Architecture Evaluation: Selecting Alternatives.- MEMS: A Method for Evaluating Middleware Architectures.- Evaluating Alternative COTS Assemblies from Imperfect Component Information.- Managing and Applying Architectural Knowledge.- Building Up and Reasoning About Architectural Knowledge.- Managing Architectural Design Decisions for Safety-Critical Software Systems.- Architectural Evaluation: Performance Prediction.- Runtime Prediction of Queued Behaviour.- Model Transformation in Software Performance Engineering.- Processes for Supporting Architecture Quality.- Traveling Architects - A New Way of Herding Cats.- A Practical Architecture-Centric Analysis Process.- Models for Architecture Evaluation.- Embedded Systems Architecture: Evaluation and Analysis.- Parameter Dependent Performance Specifications of Software Components.- Architectural Evaluation.- Applying the ATAM to an Architecture for Decentralized Control of a Transportation System.- Towards an Integration of Standard Component-Based Safety Evaluation Techniques with SaveCCM.