Interaction-sensitive synthesis of architectural tactics in connector designs

During architectural design, the architect has to come up with architectural structures and tactics that aim at the fulfillment of quality attribute requirements. Architectural structures are built from components are supposed to interact. Since connector types typically crosscut connector designs and demand for modularized treatment during architecture design. The synthesis of tactics withing connector designs, however, turns out to be a major challenge. This is due to the fact that they are likely to affect each other in the final system where they need to be mutually integrated. This mutual affection is called tactic interaction. In this paper, we describe an approach towards detecting such tactic interactions during connector design.Our approach is integrated in a commercial architecture design tool supporting interaction-sensitive synthesis of architectural tactics during connector design activities.