Foundations for the study of software architecture
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
Software reflexion models: bridging the gap between source and high-level models
SIGSOFT '95 Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
ICSE '94 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Software engineering
On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules
Communications of the ACM
Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming
Speechnet: A Network of Hyperlinked Speech-Accessible Objects
WECWIS '99 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Advance Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems
WCRE '03 Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering
Semantics of static pointcuts in aspectJ
Proceedings of the 34th annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
XWeave: models and aspects in concert
Proceedings of the 10th international workshop on Aspect-oriented modeling
A Comparison of Static Architecture Compliance Checking Approaches
WICSA '07 Proceedings of the Sixth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture
Continuous and automated evolution of architecture-to-implementation traceability links
Automated Software Engineering
A dependency constraint language to manage object-oriented software architectures
Software—Practice & Experience
Automated Architecture Consistency Checking for Model Driven Software Development
QoSA '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures: Architectures for Adaptive Software Systems
Proceedings of the WICSA 2014 Companion Volume
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The decay of software architecture - the divergent evolution of architecture models and the derived code - is one of the reasons for a decreasing maintainability of software systems. Several approaches for architecture-to-code consistency checking exist that stop the decay by detecting a divergence after evolution steps of either the architecture or the corresponding code. Known approaches have two main insufficiencies. First, the effort to derive and maintain the consistency checks is higher than necessary or they cannot be applied a posteriori. Second, they are not well integrated into UML-based model driven engineering. In the paper we present ReflexML: A UML-embedded mapping of architecture models to code plus a rich set of predefined consistency checks based on that mapping. The mapping is described with a UML profile that allows to attach AOP type patterns to an UML component model to define its reflexion on code elements. This abolishes the two insufficiencies of current approaches. We apply ReflexML to an industry project to demonstrate its effectiveness and its capability of a seamless integration into a pre-existing UML architecture model.