ARCHITECTURAL STYLES QUALITY EVALUATION AND SELECTION

Alti Adel, Smeda Adel

2009

Abstract

Today, many architectural styles have been proposed and many others are being defined. An architectural style provides a domain-specific design vocabulary and a set of constraints on how that vocabulary is used. Given the increasing complexity of architectural styles, designing a sound and appropriate architectural style becomes an important and intellectually challenging task. In order to analyze architectural styles quality factors at architecture level and meta level are needed. In this article we propose a metamodel for quality evaluation and selection of architectural style. Our metamodel includes a set of metaclasses; these metaclasses are constrained with formal OCL rules. These constraints allow us to improve the verification of the properties’ quality of the architectures by modelling styles of the software system. With this metamodel, all the properties’ quality of the final production are granted by the software architecture.

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Adel A. and Adel S. (2009). ARCHITECTURAL STYLES QUALITY EVALUATION AND SELECTION . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-674-009-2, pages 74-82. DOI: 10.5220/0002253100740082


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@conference{icsoft09,
author={Alti Adel and Smeda Adel},
title={ARCHITECTURAL STYLES QUALITY EVALUATION AND SELECTION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2009},
pages={74-82},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002253100740082},
isbn={978-989-674-009-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - ARCHITECTURAL STYLES QUALITY EVALUATION AND SELECTION
SN - 978-989-674-009-2
AU - Adel A.
AU - Adel S.
PY - 2009
SP - 74
EP - 82
DO - 10.5220/0002253100740082