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An Approach to Support Software Architecture Transformation in Architecture-Based Software Development  

Choi Heeseok (한국전자통신연구원 임베디드S/W연구단)
Yeom Keunhyuk (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.32, no.1, 2005 , pp. 10-21 More about this Journal
Abstract
Software architecture is increasingly being viewed as a key design in developing complex software systems, which largely affects the achievement of quality attributes. During the architecture-based software development, therefore, architectural transformation is needed to achieve quality attributes. Due to the variety of design alternatives and the poor predictability of the effects of the transformation, however, it is not easy to apply architectural transformation. Therefore, the method is needed to support architectural transformation through systematically analyzing the effects of applying various design alternatives to the architecture. This paper proposes an approach to support software architecture transformation. Based on architectural design decisions and the constraints on them included in the architecture, our approach defines a decision constraint graph representing the dependencies among architectural design decisions. Through using the decision constraint graph, architectural transformation can be systematically performed by understanding the effects of applying a transformation. While this work supports more understanding of applying architectural transformation, it also helps reconstruct a software architecture to improve the quality of the software.
Keywords
Software architecture; Software architecture transformation; Decision constraint graph;
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