Software Architecture as a Set of Architectural Design Decisions

Jansen, Anton; Bosch, Jan

doi:10.1109/wicsa.2005.61

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“…According to Taylor and van der Hoek [10], as well as Jansen and Bosch [11], software architecture is a set of principal design decisions governing a system. During a software system's design phase, architects have to make numerous decisions for organizational and business issues, for matters of broad and detailed design, and for technologies [12].…”

Section: Reusable Architectural Decision Modelsmentioning

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Reusable Architectural Decision Model for Model and Metadata Repositories

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Dustdar

2009

Formal Methods for Components and Objects

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Abstract. Models are gaining importance in software development, for instance in the MDD field, as well as in other disciplines such as biology and physics. Hence, tool support is needed to manage these models and metadata about the models. Model repositories support this trend by managing these model artifacts. While setting up model and metadata repositories, architects have to make several fundamental design decisions and balance various forces. In this paper we describe reusable knowledge in form of reusable architectural decisions for ITarchitects in setting-up, planning, and developing model and metadata repositories, as well as the main decision drivers. Our decisions are documented in a reusable architectural decision model that can be instantiated for a concrete system. It also supports a lightweight approach to architecture documentation. A case study illustrates the decisions made when setting up our own data access object model repository by walking through the reusable architectural decision model.

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Section: Reusable Architectural Decision Modelsmentioning

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“…Architectural decision models are used to document architectural decisions [11,13,14]. These architectural models capture selected decision options and justifications for these decisions.…”

Section: Reusable Architectural Decision Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reusable Architectural Decision Model for Model and Metadata Repositories

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Zdun

Dustdar

2009

Formal Methods for Components and Objects

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“…SA as a product has been recognized as an important design artifact in software development activities, including analysis, design and evaluation activities as well as implementation and evolution [23]. A system's SA typically constitutes the design decisions about a system [24], such as the use of certain architectural styles or patterns [22], e.g., layers or model-view-controller (MVC). Architecture patterns are common solutions to recurring system design problems [25], and affect the system-wide quality attributes (QAs, sometimes referred to as a system's "ilities") such as performance and reliability [26].…”

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The Importance of Architectural Knowledge in Integrating Open Source Software

Stol

Babar

Avgeriou

2011

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. Open Source Software (OSS) is increasingly used in ComponentBased Software Development (CBSD) of large software systems. An important issue in CBSD is selection of suitable components. Various OSS selection methods have been proposed, but most of them do not consider the software architecture aspects of OSS products. The Software Architecture (SA) research community refers to a product's architectural information, such as design decisions and underlying rationale, and used architecture patterns, as Architecture Knowledge (AK). In order to investigate the importance of AK of OSS components in integration, we conducted an exploratory empirical study. Based on in-depth interviews with 12 IT professionals, this paper presents insights into the following questions: 1) what AK of OSS is needed? 2) Why is AK of OSS needed? 3) Is AK of OSS generally available? And 4) what is the relative importance of AK? Based on these new insights, we provide a research agenda to further the research field of software architecture in OSS.

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“…Some of the tools that have been recently proposed to store and use design decisions are the following. Archium (http://www.archium.net) is a research prototype [9] for supporting design decisions as first class entities. Archium defines a meta-model which is composed of three sub-models: an architectural model, a design decision model, and a composition model to compose design fragments (an architectural fragment defining a collection of architectural entities).…”

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Extending Software Architecting Processes with Decision-Making Activities

Capilla

Nava

2008

Balancing Agility and Formalism in Software Engineering

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Abstract. The traditional perspective on software architecture has paid much attention to architecting as a development process aimed at creating the architecture of a software system, as well as the documentation used to communicate the architecture to the stakeholders by means of several architectural views. Recently, the software architecture research community has faced the need to record, manage, and document the design decisions and the rationale that lead to such architecture. Because architectures are the result of a set of design decisions, this design rationale must be properly recorded and managed as a complementary process to the modelling activity. In this paper we detail different types of decision-making activities aimed at creating and using design decisions and how these can be supported with tool support.

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Software Architecture as a Set of Architectural Design Decisions

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Cited by 437 publications

References 16 publications

Reusable Architectural Decision Model for Model and Metadata Repositories

Reusable Architectural Decision Model for Model and Metadata Repositories

The Importance of Architectural Knowledge in Integrating Open Source Software

Extending Software Architecting Processes with Decision-Making Activities

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