Using Architectural Patterns to Define Architectural Decisions

  • Authors:
  • Minh Tu Ton That;Salah Sadou;Flavio Oquendo

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • WICSA-ECSA '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture and European Conference on Software Architecture
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

During the architecture development process, architectural design decisions play an important role in maintaining non-functional properties of the system. Instead of supposing that architectural decisions are implicitly recognizable, existing works propose to give them first-class status. However, little focus is paid on the automation of architectural decision checking. This paper proposes to leverage pattern formalization techniques to document architectural decisions. The approach consists of a way to describe architectural patterns that hold the architectural decision definition, show how to integrate architectural decisions (patterns) into an architectural model and finally automate the architectural decision conformance checking.