Quality-driven architecture development using architectural tactics

  • Authors:

  • Suntae Kim;Dae-Kyoo Kim;Lunjin Lu;Sooyong Park

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA and Department of Computer Science, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA;Department of Computer Science, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presents a quality-driven approach to embodying non-functional requirements (NFRs) into software architecture using architectural tactics. Architectural tactics are reusable architectural building blocks, providing general architectural solutions for common issues pertaining to quality attributes. In this approach, architectural tactics are represented as feature models, and their semantics is defined using the Role-Based Metamodeling Language (RBML) which is a UML-based pattern specification notation. Given a set of NFRs, architectural tactics are selected and composed, and the composed tactic is used to instantiate an initial architecture for the application. The proposed approach addresses both the structural and behavioral aspects of architecture. We describe the approach using tactics for performance, availability and security to develop an architecture for a stock trading system. We demonstrate tool support for instantiating a composed tactic to generate an initial architecture of the stock trading system.