Defining the Architectural Design of Frameworks through a Group of Subframeworks Created from Frozen and Hot Spots

This work presents a contribution to an architectural definition of a framework, which is composed of several subframeworks, subsystems and components, clarifying explicitly its process of reuse. Several approaches for the development of frameworks presented in the literature do not specify which parts of the subframeworks will be flexible and which ones will not vary, thus making the process of reusing subframeworks more difficult. This paper provides a proposal aiming to define the subframeworks from frozen and hot spots obtained in the beginning of a frameworks development process.