Fifth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA'05)
Generalizing a Model of Software Architecture Design from Five Industrial Approaches
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
November 06-November 10
ISBN: 0-7695-2548-2
We compare five industrial software architecture design methods and we extract from their commonalities a general software architecture design approach. Using this general approach, we compare across the five methods the artifacts and activities they use or recommend, and we pinpoint similarities and differences. Once we get beyond the great variance in terminology and description, we find that the 5 approaches have a lot in common and match more or less the "ideal" pattern we introduced.
Citation:
Christine Hofmeister, Philippe Kruchten, Robert L. Nord, Henk Obbink, Alexander Ran, Pierre America, "Generalizing a Model of Software Architecture Design from Five Industrial Approaches," wicsa, pp.77-88, Fifth Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA'05), 2005