Utilizing architectural styles to enhance the adaptation support of middleware platforms

Esfahani, Naeem; Malek, Sam

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2012.02.001

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“…Gomaa and Hussein [10] developed the notion of reconfiguration pattern, which is a repeatable sequence of steps for placing a software component in the quiescence state. In recent work [6,7], we adopted this concept to provide safe adaptation support on top of a middleware platform.…”

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Mining the execution history of a software system to infer the best time for its adaptation

Canavera

Esfahani

Malek

2012

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

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An important challenge in dynamic adaptation of a software system is to prevent inconsistencies (failures) and disruptions in its operations during and after change. Several prior techniques have solved this problem with various tradeoffs. All of them, however, assume the availability of detailed component dependency models. This paper presents a complementary technique that solves this problem in settings where such models are either not available, difficult to build, or outdated due to the evolution of the software. Our approach first mines the execution history of a software system to infer a stochastic component dependency model, representing the probabilistic sequence of interactions among the system's components. We then demonstrate how this model could be used at runtime to infer the "best time" for adaptation of the system's components. We have thoroughly evaluated this research on a multi-user real world software system and under varying conditions.

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Mining the execution history of a software system to infer the best time for its adaptation

Canavera

Esfahani

Malek

2012

Proceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT 20th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

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Information Systems Architecture and Organization in the Era of MicroServices

Cavallari

Tornieri

2018

Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation

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Model-driven synthesis of formally precise, stylized software architectures

Bagheri

Sullivan

2016

Form. Asp. Comput.

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Reliably producing software architectures in selected architectural styles requires significant expertise yet remains difficult and error-prone. Our research goals are to better understand the nature of style-specific architectures, and relieve architects of the need to produce such architectures by hand. To achieve our goals, this paper introduces a formally precise approach to separate architectural style design decisions from application-specific decisions, and then uses these separate decisions as inputs to an automated synthesizer. This in effect supports a model-driven development (MDD) approach to architecture synthesis with style as a separate design variable. We claim that it is possible to formalize this separation of concerns, long implicit in software engineering research; to automatically synthesize style-specific architectures; and thereby to improve software design productivity and quality. To test these claims, we employed a combination of experimental systems and case study methods: we developed an MDD tool and used it to carry out case studies using Kitchenham’s methods. Our contributions include: a theoretical framework formalizing our separation of concerns and synthesis approach; an MDD framework, Monarch; and results of case studies that we interpret as supporting our claims. This work advances our understanding of software architectural style as a formal refinement; makes application descriptions an explicit subject of study; and suggests that synthesis of architectures can improve software productivity and quality.

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Utilizing architectural styles to enhance the adaptation support of middleware platforms

Cited by 6 publications

References 33 publications

Mining the execution history of a software system to infer the best time for its adaptation

Mining the execution history of a software system to infer the best time for its adaptation

Information Systems Architecture and Organization in the Era of MicroServices

Model-driven synthesis of formally precise, stylized software architectures

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