Fourth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA'04)
Attribute-Based Refinement of Software Architectures
Oslo, Norway
June 12-June 15
ISBN: 0-7695-2172-X
This paper aims to show the usefulness of attaching attributes to pieces of software architectures, in order to direct a transformation and refinement process. These attributes are properties that can be considered as abstract ways to express architectural structures, and characteristics that constrain the refinement process. Then we define a methodology that consists in refining and transforming an architecture on the basis of the attributes attached to it. The methodology will be illustrated on a case study.