Title
Towards continuous reference architecture conformance analysis
Abstract
Reference architectures (RA) are reusable architectures for artifacts in a particular domain. They can serve as a basis for designing new architectures, but also as a means for quality control during system development. Quality control is performed through checking the conformance of systems in development to (company-wide) reference architectures. If performed manually, reference architecture conformance checking is a time- and resource-intensive process. In this paper we outline an approach for reference architecture conformance checking of application architectures in the banking domain. Reference architectures are defined on the basis of reusable rules, consisting of roles and of constraints on roles and role relationships. Conformance checking can be performed semi-automatically and continuously by automating important steps like the extraction of the actual application architecture, the binding of reference architecture roles to the elements of a specific application architecture, and the evaluation of the reference architecture rules for an application architecture.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-39031-9_32
ECSA
Keywords
Field
DocType
application architecture,specific application architecture,reference architecture role,reference architecture,new architecture,conformance analysis,reusable architecture,reference architecture rule,towards continuous reference architecture,quality control,reference architecture conformance checking,actual application architecture,software architecture
Space-based architecture,Database-centric architecture,Computer architecture,Applications architecture,Software engineering,Computer science,Software architecture description,Solution architecture,Real-time computing,Reference architecture,Conformance checking,Enterprise architecture framework
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.39
7
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Georg Buchgeher110913.81
Rainer Weinreich223727.10