Linguistic support for the evolutionary design of software architectures
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Software engineering
IBM Systems Journal
Advances in software engineering
Graph-Based Reverse Engineering and Reengineering Tools
AGTIVE '99 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance
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As software systems grow in size and complexity, the demand for languages and tools to capture higher-order abstractions than those supported by programming languages increases. One of these abstractions is the architectural design, which specifies a system's components, their interfaces, and their interrelationships using textual or visual notations. Although there have been significant advances in programming languages and environments, research into languages and tools for architectural design is still preliminary. Moreover, there has been little emphasis on integrating design tools with existing programming environments. This paper describes how the Object-Oriented Turing programming environment was extended to accommodate languages and tools for specifying and visualizing architectural designs.