Exploiting style in architectural design environments

  • Authors:

  • David Garlan;Robert Allen;John Ockerbloom

  • Affiliations:

  • Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • SIGSOFT '94 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

As the design of software architectures emerges as a discipline within software engineering, it will become increasingly important to support architectural description and analysis with tools and environments. In this paper we describe a system for developing architectural design environments that exploit architectural styles to guide software architects in producing specific systems. The primary contributions of this research are: (a) a generic object model for representing architectural designs; (b) the characterization of architectural styles as specializations of this object model; and (c) a toolkit for creating an open architectural design environment from a description of a specific architectural style. We use our experience in implementing these concepts to illustrate how style-oriented architectural design raises new challenges for software support environments.