Linguistic support for the evolutionary design of software architectures

Author

Graham, T. C Nicholas ; Urnes, Tore

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., York Univ., North York, Ont., Canada

fYear

1996

fDate

25-29 Mar 1996

Firstpage

418

Lastpage

427

Abstract

As a program´s functionality evolves over time, its software architecture should evolve as well so that it continues to match the program´s design. This paper introduces the architecture language of Clock, a language for the development of interactive, multiuser applications. This architecture language possesses three properties supporting the easy restructuring of software architectures: restricted scoping supported by a constraint-based communication system, automatic message routing, and easy hierarchical restructuring of architectures. Clock´s architecture language has a visual syntax, supported by the Clock-Works programming environment

Keywords

high level languages; interactive systems; programming environments; software engineering; Clock; Clock-Works programming environment; architecture language; automatic message routing; constraint-based communication; interactive, multiuser applications; restricted scoping; software architectures; visual syntax; Application software; Clocks; Computer architecture; Computer science; Interactive systems; Programming environments; Programming profession; Routing; Software architecture; Software design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, 1996., Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Berlin

ISSN

0270-5257

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7247-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSE.1996.493436

Filename

493436