Characterizing Relations between Architectural Views
ECSA '08 Proceedings of the 2nd European conference on Software Architecture
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2
Towards an architectural viewpoint for systems of software intensive systems
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge
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Modern systems modelling languages frequently support the use of multiple views in order to provide flexible, extensible, and rich mechanisms for capturing system characteristics. Architectural description languages (ADLs) often provide many useful capabilities but fail to provide support for ensuring view consistency simply because they present a single view of the system. An ADL used for building dependable systems must provide multiple views. For these kinds of systems, ensuring view consistency is critical so as to provide guarantees about the system as a whole. In this paper, we outline an architectural modelling language, AIM, which supports multiple views, but we focus on its first-class support for dependency links, which are used to ensure view consistency. We illustrate the principles on examples from a real engine control system.