Software Architecture in Practice
Software Architecture in Practice
SEAS '05 Proceedings of the second international workshop on Software engineering for automotive systems
Challenges in automotive software engineering
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
The Concept of Reference Architectures
Systems Engineering
Empirically-grounded reference architectures: a proposal
Proceedings of the joint ACM SIGSOFT conference -- QoSA and ACM SIGSOFT symposium -- ISARCS on Quality of software architectures -- QoSA and architecting critical systems -- ISARCS
Reference architecture and product line architecture: a subtle but critical difference
ECSA'11 Proceedings of the 5th European conference on Software architecture
A framework for analysis and design of software reference architectures
Information and Software Technology
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The paper presents a document template for reference architectures for the domain of software-intensive embedded systems. The template addresses the somewhat conflicting needs when documenting a reference architecture of readability, overview, details, evolution and different background of the stakeholders. The first novel idea is the template prescribes two separate documents describing a reference architecture beside the product architecture documentation. The information in the two documents concern different stakeholders and evolve at different paces. The other novelty in describing reference architectures is to introduce a perspective of time, in the form of horizons, rather than focusing on a snapshot a release date. In addition, a case is presented giving an example of how a reference architecture was documented according to the template, how stakeholder needs were captured, and how the different types of information was identified or recovered from existing product architectures.