A framework for developing and analyzing software architecture specifications in SAM Article

He, X, Deng, Y. (2002). A framework for developing and analyzing software architecture specifications in SAM . 45(1), 111-128. 10.1093/comjnl/45.1.111

cited authors

  • He, X; Deng, Y

fiu authors

abstract

  • In the past decade, software architecture research has mainly focused on the concept formulation and the development of various architecture description languages. This field has now matured enough and thus requires more emphasis for developing and analyzing software architecture specifications. SAM is a general software architecture model for developing and analyzing software architectures. In this paper, we show how to integrate high-level Petri nets and first-order temporal logic as the foundation of SAM to establish a unified framework for specifying and analyzing all aspects of a software architecture. We provide a set of heuristics, which are supported by well-defined existing methods and techniques developed by other researchers as well as our own, for software architecture development and analysis. We demonstrate the application of this framework and the heuristics with an example.

publication date

  • March 2, 2002

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

start page

  • 111

end page

  • 128

volume

  • 45

issue

  • 1