Abstract-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.
That et al. REF use a model-based approach to document architectural decisions as architectural patterns.
Using Architectural Patterns to Define Architectural Decisions
2012 Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture and European Conference on Software Architecture
2012 Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture and European Conference on Software Architecture
Computer Science