Olivier Barais

Safarchie Studio: ArgoUML Extensions to Build Safe Architectures

Nowadays, no standard and universal definition of software architecture was accepted by all the community. Various points of view on different studies bring to several approaches. These approaches focus on only one or two concerns such as component interfaces specification, behavioral analysis or software reconfiguration. This paper argues that, in order to accrue the true benefits of software architecture approaches, one may need to use an architecture centric approach with a global reasoning: From software architecture design to software architecture management to software architecture building, deployment and refinement. However, these different concerns of a software architecture definition must be in consistency. For this reason, we based our approach on architecture types that are points of reference at each step of our reasoning. We offer with SafArchie Studio, a first architecture centric approach based on three-view perspective and driven by the component life cycle.

Providing Support for Safe Software Architecture Transformations

Software architecture is a key concept in the design of a complex system. An architecture models the structure and behavior of the system, including the software elements and the relationships between them. While architectures were originally specified informally, recent years have seen the creation of a number of Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) [4]. ADLs are designed around the dimensions of composition and interaction, allowing the architect to introduce new concerns by constructing and combining increasingly complex elements