Supporting Consistency between Architectural Design Decisions and Component Models through Reusable Architectural Knowledge Transformations

Lytra, Ioanna; Tran, Huy; Zdun, Uwe

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39031-9_20

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“…The architectural model is consistent with made StADs iff affected model elements prevail. Similar to [19], in [23], the authors influence the outcome of StAD by using actions. A StAD is provided with a set of actions which in turn are concretized into design model elements.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Indeed, the idea of linking StADs and architectural artifacts to maintain the consistency during their co-evolution has been discussed in [8,19,21,23]. While the explicit link in [8] only serves for the traceability from decisions to design artifacts, the linking model defined in [19,21,23] also aims at checking the conformance of the architectural model. More specifically, in [19], the authors propose to reinforce the outcome of StAD by using model differences.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Preserving architectural decisions through architectural patterns

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Architectural decisions have emerged as a means to maintain the quality of the architecture during its evolution. One of the most important decisions made by architects are those about the design approach such as the use of patterns or styles in the architecture. The structural nature of this type of decisions give them the potential to be controlled systematically. In the literature, there are some works on the automation of architectural decision violation checking. In this paper we show that these works do not allow to detect all possible architectural decision violations. To solve this problem we propose an approach which: i) describes architectural patterns that hold the architectural decision definition, ii) integrates architectural decisions into an architectural model and, iii) automates the architectural decision conformance checking. The approach is implemented using Eclipse Modeling Framework and its accompanying technologies. Starting from well-known architectural patterns, we show that we can formalize all those related to the structural aspect. Through two evaluations, we show that our approach can be adapted to different architecture paradigms and allows to detect more violations comparing to the existing approaches.

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confidence: 96%

Section: Ad Conformance Checkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preserving architectural decisions through architectural patterns

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“…Modeling and documenting of architecture design decisions (ADD), as well as transforming them into design views (DV) is addressed in [25], [26] and [27]. Both [25] and [26] deal with modeling and documenting architectural design decisions using architectural primitives.…”

Section: Architecture Refinementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The pattern primitives provide a technology-neutral modeling approach for SOA-based applications and enable refining the high-level architecture into low-level technical concepts, such as individual service invocations. Further, in [27] the authors focus on providing automated, model-based translation between pattern-based architectural design decisions and design views (specifically component-and-connector model). These approaches mostly focus on supporting the modeling of applications behavior by utilizing software engineering best practices.…”

Section: Architecture Refinementmentioning

confidence: 99%

MADCAT: A Methodology for Architecture and Deployment of Cloud Application Topologies

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et al. 2014

2014 IEEE 8th International Symposium on Service Oriented System Engineering

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Abstract-The cloud computing paradigm introduces new possibilities and challenges for application design and deployment. On-demand resource provisioning, as well as resource and cost elasticity, need to be considered when realizing largescale distributed applications for cloud environments. Current approaches do not sufficiently address the challenges of efficiently architecting and deploying cloud applications in a holistic manner and do not deal with the specific challenges encountered in cloud infrastructures. In this paper we introduce a methodology tackling the practical problems encountered when designing and deploying cloud applications. It enables the structured creation of cloud-native applications, addressing the complete application development lifecycle, from architectural design to concrete deployment topologies provisioned and executed on cloud infrastructure. By using iterative refinement and seamless provenance documentation of decisions made in the process, the methodology eases communication with relevant stakeholders and enables efficient design and deployment of distributed cloud applications.

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“…This article is an extension of our conference publication [20] with following significant additions and improvements: (a) a more complete list of compound transformation actions and reusable constraints has been included along with further elaborations, (b) the case study and evaluations have been extended, and (c) the related work has been discussed further and compared to our contributions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%