Architectural transformations

  • Authors:
  • Vincenzo Ambriola;Alina Kmiecik

  • Affiliations:
  • Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy;Instytut Informatyki, Politechnika Lódzka, Lódz, Poland

  • Venue:
  • SEKE '02 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The first draft of a software architecture almost never constitutes the final picture of the system to be developed. In most cases it misses some of required properties and needs to be improved or even completely rebuilt. The software architect applies architectural transformations in order to "repair" the system structure. In this paper we present our approach to software architecture and architectural transformations. We also discuss three related issues: ADLs, architectural styles and non-functional requirements. Some arguments for architectural change automation are also given.