Using Architectural Patterns to Define Architectural Decisions

Tu Minh Ton That (1) , Salah Sadou (1) , Flavio Oquendo (1)

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During the architecture development process, architectural design decisions play an important role in maintaining non-functional properties of the system. Instead of supposing that architectural decisions are implicitly recognizable, existing works propose to give them first-class status. However, little focus is paid on the automation of architectural decision checking. This paper proposes to leverage pattern formalization techniques to document architectural decisions. The approach consists of a way to describe architectural patterns that hold the architectural decision definition, show how to integrate architectural decisions (patterns) into an architectural model and finally automate the architectural decision conformance checking.

Mots clés: architectural decision; pattern; SOA

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Tu Minh Ton That, Salah Sadou, Flavio Oquendo. Using Architectural Patterns to Define Architectural Decisions. Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture & European Conference on Software Architecture, Aug 2012, Helsinki, Finland. pp.196-200. ⟨hal-00758792⟩