Towards software architecture at runtime

  • Authors:
  • Gang Huang;Hong Mei;Qian-xiang Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Peking University, Beijing, PRC;Peking University, Beijing, PRC;Peking University, Beijing, PRC

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

As Internet and wireless network make the runtime environment much more dynamic and open, software becomes more and more complex and difficult to maintain. Software architecture at run-time (RSA) can help maintainers understand and reason the run-time system. Moreover, RSA helps to keep SA consistent in the whole software lifecycle. This paper presents an approach to three fundamental issues of RSA, including making RSA the first-class entity at runtime, maintaining the causal-connection between RSA and the runtime system, and mapping RSA from/into SA at the design phase.