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Software Architecture in Action

Designing and Executing Architectural Models with SysADL Grounded on the OMG SysML Standard

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Authors:
  1. Flavio Oquendo

    1. IRISA Research Institute, University of South Brittany , Vannes, France

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  2. Jair Leite

    1. Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

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  3. Thaís Batista

    1. Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

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  • Covers the fundamentals of software architecture modeling, consolidating both practical and theoretical approaches
  • Presents SysADL, a software architecture modeling language with the potential of describing models compliant with the SysML standard to be used by software engineers of today and tomorrow
  • Provides students with a clear and structured resource into required modeling techniques for software architecture
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science (UTICS)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Fundamentals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to Software Architecture

      • Flavio Oquendo, Jair Leite, Thaís Batista
      Pages 3-12

    3. Viewpoints for Describing Software Architectures

      • Flavio Oquendo, Jair Leite, Thaís Batista
      Pages 13-25

    4. Eliciting Requirements of Software Architectures

      • Flavio Oquendo, Jair Leite, Thaís Batista
      Pages 27-36

    5. Specifying the Structure of Software Architectures

      • Flavio Oquendo, Jair Leite, Thaís Batista
      Pages 37-64

    6. Specifying Behavior of Software Architectures

      • Flavio Oquendo, Jair Leite, Thaís Batista
      Pages 65-88

    7. Specifying Executable Software Architectures

      • Flavio Oquendo, Jair Leite, Thaís Batista
      Pages 89-97

    8. Executing Software Architectures

      • Flavio Oquendo, Jair Leite, Thaís Batista
      Pages 99-119

  3. Quality-Based Architectures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Introduction to Quality-Based Architectures

      • Flavio Oquendo, Jair Leite, Thaís Batista
      Pages 123-126

    3. Designing Modifiability in Software Architectures

      • Flavio Oquendo, Jair Leite, Thaís Batista
      Pages 127-141

    4. Designing Scalability in Software Architectures

      • Flavio Oquendo, Jair Leite, Thaís Batista
      Pages 143-154

    5. Designing Fault Tolerance in Software Architectures

      • Flavio Oquendo, Jair Leite, Thaís Batista
      Pages 155-164

  4. Style-Based Architectures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. Introduction to Style-Based Architectures

      • Flavio Oquendo, Jair Leite, Thaís Batista
      Pages 167-170

    3. Pipe-Filter Architectural Style

      • Flavio Oquendo, Jair Leite, Thaís Batista
      Pages 171-177

    4. Client Server Architectural Style

      • Flavio Oquendo, Jair Leite, Thaís Batista
      Pages 179-187

    5. Feedback Control Loop Architectural Style

      • Flavio Oquendo, Jair Leite, Thaís Batista
      Pages 189-195

    6. Blackboard Architectural Style

      • Flavio Oquendo, Jair Leite, Thaís Batista
      Pages 197-210
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About this book

This book presents a systematic model-based approach for software architecture according to three complementary viewpoints: structure, behavior, and execution. It covers a unified modeling approach and consolidates theory and practice with well-established learning outcomes.

The authors cover the fundamentals of software architecture description and presents SysADL, a specialization of the OMG Standard Systems Modeling Language (SysML) with the aim of bringing together the expressive power of an Architecture Description Language (ADL) with a standard notation, widely accepted by industry and compliant with the ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 Standard on Architecture Description in Systems and Software Engineering.

The book is clearly structured in four parts:

  • The first part focuses on the fundamentals of software architecture, exploring the concepts and constructs for modeling software architecture from differing viewpoints. Each chapter covers a specific viewpoint illustrated with examples of a real system.
    • The second part focuses on how to design software architecture for achieving quality attributes. Each chapter covers a specific quality attribute and presents well-defined approaches to achieve it. Each architectural case study is illustrated with different examples drawn from a real-life system.
  • The third part shows readers how to apply software architecture style to design architectures that meet the quality attributes. Each chapter covers a specific architectural style and gives insights on how to describe substyles. Each style is illustrated by variants and examples of a real-life system.
  • The fourth part presents how to textually represent software architecture models to complement visual notation, including different examples.

Software Architecture in Action is designed for teaching the required modeling techniques to both undergraduate andgraduate students, giving them the practical techniques and tools needed to design the architecture of software-intensive systems. Similarly, this book will appeal to software development architects, designers, programmers and project managers too.

Reviews

“This 234-page book is broken into 17 chapters and organized into four parts, each focused on a different aspect of software architecture. … Each chapter is short and easy to read, and follows an identical format. The chapter opens with a statement telling what the chapter will cover and what the reader will learn. … The example is simple and easy for undergraduate students to understand and does not detract from the point each chapter tries to make.” (Computing Reviews, May, 2017)

Authors and Affiliations

  • IRISA Research Institute, University of South Brittany , Vannes, France

    Flavio Oquendo

  • Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil

    Jair Leite, Thaís Batista

About the authors

Flavio Oquendo is Full Professor of Computing at the University of South Brittany, France, and Principal Investigator on Software Architecture at the IRISA Research Institute (UMR CNRS 6074). He was awarded the degrees of PhD and HDR (Research Direction Habilitation) in Computing from the University of Grenoble, France. He has been working with Software Architecture since 1986. His research interests are centred on formal languages, processes and tools to support the efficient architecture and engineering of software-intensive systems and their applications in industrial settings. He was Scientific Director of pioneering European Projects on Software Architecture in cooperation with the industry and founding co-chair of the French and European Conferences on Software Architecture. Also on Software Architecture, he has been involved as Program Chair of the French, European, and IEEE/IFIP conferences and has edited many Special Issues in International Journals.

Jair Leite has been working with Software Design and Architecture since 1998. His research interests are architecture-based development, human computer interaction, design languages. He has been member of several Program Committees of Brazilian and International conferences involving Software Architecture.

Thais Batista is Full Professor of the Informatics Department at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Brazil. She is vice-president of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). She has been working with Software Architecture since 2000. Her research interests are architecture-based development, middleware, internet of things, cloud computing, system-of-systems. She has been involved as Program Committee member of several Brazilian and International conferences involving Software Architecture.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Software Architecture in Action

  • Book Subtitle: Designing and Executing Architectural Models with SysADL Grounded on the OMG SysML Standard

  • Authors: Flavio Oquendo, Jair Leite, Thaís Batista

  • Series Title: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44339-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44337-9Published: 04 November 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44339-3Published: 26 October 2016

  • Series ISSN: 1863-7310

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-1781

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 236

  • Number of Illustrations: 203 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Software Engineering

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