ALI: An Extensible Architecture Description Language for Industrial Applications

Bashroush, Rabih; Spence, Ivor; Kilpatrick, Peter; Brown, Tony N.; Gilani, Wasif; Fritzsche, Mathias

doi:10.1109/ecbs.2008.55

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“…Release Years SARA 53 1986 Artek, 76 Acme, 35,36 C2SADL, 41 Darwin, 11,12 UniCon, 77 SADL (Structure) 78 1994-1997 ADML, 79 Koala, 16 Olan, 80,81 π-space, 82 AEmilia, 83,84 Zeta, 85 ComUnity, 86,87 DAOP-ADL, 88 Korrigan, 89 AADL, 14,15 Mae, 90 π-ADL, 91 Service-ADL 92 2000-2004 ADLARS, 93 Clara, 60 East-ADL, 32 π-net ADL, 17 SafArchie, 94 Secure X-ADL, 34 AspectualAcme, 37 Backbone, 95 EAADL, 96 Prisma, 28,97 Ambient-Prisma, 29,30 ALI, 98,99 WADL, 100 DEMO, 101 DiaSpec, 102 Dedal, 103 EADL, 104,105 AO-ADL, 51 MontiArc, 104,105 C3, 106 DPD, 107 Primitive-C 57 2005-2012…”

Section: Architectural Languagesmentioning

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The analysis of architectural languages for the needs of practitioners

Özkaya

2018

Softw Pract Exp

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Summary Architectural languages (ALs) have attracted much attention as the modeling notations for specifying and reasoning about important design decisions. In this study, 124 different existing ALs have been analyzed for a set of requirements that are crucial for practitioners. These requirements are concerned with language definition, language features, and tool support. Some of the important findings obtained from the analysis are as follows: (1) performance is the top popular nonfunctional requirement supported by ALs; (2) no ALs offer both textual and visual notation sets, one of which could be used independently; (3) process algebras are the top preferred formal method by formal ALs; (4) the physical, deployment, and operational viewpoints are rarely supported by ALs; (5) the top preferred extension mechanism of the extensible ALs is XML for syntax extension; (6) Java is the top preferred programming language in generating software code; (7) the exhaustive model checking is the top preferred automated analysis method; (8) the logic‐based formal techniques are so popular in specifying system requirements; (9) among the analysis properties considered, consistency is the top supported property for the automated checking; and (10) most ALs do not provide any discussion platform (eg, forums). Hence, these findings can be used by the new AL developers in addressing the needs of practitioners and bridging the gaps in the field. Practitioners can also use the findings to find out about the existing ALs and compare them to choose the one(s) that suits their needs best.

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Section: Architectural Languagesmentioning

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The analysis of architectural languages for the needs of practitioners

Özkaya

2018

Softw Pract Exp

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“…-ALI: (Bashroush et al, 2008) presents an ADL called "ALI" (a descendent of "ADLARS" (Bashroush et al, 2005)) that aims to support product line engineering (and therefore also variability) as well as non-variant and individual system architectures.…”

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Representing Variability in Software Architecture: A Systematic Literature Review

Haider

Woods²,

Bashroush³

2018

IJSECS

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Variability in software-intensive systems is the ability of a software artefact (e.g., a system, subsystem, or component) to be extended, customised or configured for deployment in a specific context. Software Architecture is a high-level description of a software-intensive system that abstracts the system implementation details allowing the architect to view the system as a whole. Although variability in software architecture is recognised as a challenge in multiple domains, there has been no formal consensus on how variability should be captured or represented. The objective of this research was to provide a snapshot of the state-of-the-art on representing variability in software architecture while assessing the nature of the different approaches. To achieve this objective, a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was conducted covering literature produced from January 1991 until June 2016. Then, grounded theory was used to conduct the analysis and draw conclusions from data, minimising threats to validity. In this paper, we report on the findings from the study.

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“…While ADLs originated in academia such as ACME [13]/ADML, ABACUS [14], Aesop [15], UniCon [16], Wright [17], GEN-VOCA [18], π-ADL [3], Rapide [19], SADL [20], xADL [21], ADLARS [22], ALI [23,24], ArchiMate [25] and ByADL [1], to name a few, all exhibit novel approaches to architecture description, from support for interchange and interoperability to advanced architectural analysis capabilities, the vast majority tend to be vertically optimized, limiting their attractiveness in many industrial projects.…”

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Modelling large-scale information systems using ADLs – An industrial experience report

Woods

Bashroush

2015

Journal of Systems and Software

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An organisation that had developed a large information system wanted to embark on a programme that would involve large-scale evolution of it. As a precursor to this, it was decided to create a comprehensive architectural description to capture and understand the system's design. This undertaking faced a number of challenges, including a low general awareness of software modelling and software architecture practices. The approach taken by the software architects tasked with this project included the definition of a simple, very specific, architecture description language. This paper reports our experience of the project and a simple ADL that we created as part of it.

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ALI: An Extensible Architecture Description Language for Industrial Applications

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The analysis of architectural languages for the needs of practitioners

The analysis of architectural languages for the needs of practitioners

Representing Variability in Software Architecture: A Systematic Literature Review

Modelling large-scale information systems using ADLs – An industrial experience report

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