Rule-based architectural compliance checks for enterprise architecture management

  • Authors:

  • Constanze Deiters;Patrick Dohrmann;Sebastian Herold;Andreas Rausch

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Informatics-Software Systems Engineering, Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany;Department of Informatics-Software Systems Engineering, Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany;Department of Informatics-Software Systems Engineering, Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany;Department of Informatics-Software Systems Engineering, Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

  • Venue:
  • EDOC'09 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE international conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Modern enterprise application systems are parts of complex IT landscapes. The architecture of such a landscape may impose constraints upon the design of single applications, for example by the mandatory use of enterprise-wide reference architectures. It is of great importance for the sake of smooth operation and easy maintaining that single applications are compliant to the reference architectures. Checking this compliance is highly important for the architecture management to assure the quality of application systems. Unfortunately, current tool support is not flexible enough to easily check different aspects of architectural compliance. This paper proposes a rule-based approach based upon logic programming concepts towards a formalism for architectural compliance checking. In this approach, the architecture and design are represented as logical knowledge base that can be queried for architectural compliance. Furthermore, the paper presents a case study, in which the approach was prototypically implemented and applied in an industrial context.