A Principled Way to Use Frameworks in Architecture Design

In the past decade, researchers have devised many methods to support and codify architecture design. However, what hampers such methods\´ adoption is that these methods employ abstract concepts such as views, tactics, and patterns, whereas practicing software architects choose technical design primitives from the services offered in commercial frameworks. A holistic and more realistic approach to architecture design addresses this disconnect. This approach uses and systematically links both top-down concepts, such as patterns and tactics, and implementation artifacts, such as frameworks, which are bottom-up concepts. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/kygFOV8TqEw is a video in which Humberto Cervantes from Autonomous Metropolitan University interviews Josué Martìnez Buenrrostro, a software architect at Quarksoft in Mexico City, about the design process discussed in the article "A Principled Way to Use Frameworks in Architecture Design".