Software Architecture

1. Front Matter

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2. Architectural and Design Patterns and Models

   1. Composition-Centered Architectural Pattern Description Language

      • Minh Tu Ton That, Salah Sadou, Flavio Oquendo, Isabelle Borne

      Pages 1-16

   2. Software Reference Architectures - Exploring Their Usage and Design in Practice

      • Samuil Angelov, Jos Trienekens, Rob Kusters

      Pages 17-24

   3. Concurrent Object-Oriented Development with Behavioral Design Patterns

      • Benjamin Morandi, Scott West, Sebastian Nanz, Hassan Gomaa

      Pages 25-32

   4. Building Correct by Construction SOA Design Patterns: Modeling and Refinement

      • Imen Tounsi, Mohamed Hadj Kacem, Ahmed Hadj Kacem

      Pages 33-44

   5. Towards an Architecture for Managing Big Semantic Data in Real-Time

      • Carlos E. Cuesta, Miguel A. Martínez-Prieto, Javier D. Fernández

      Pages 45-53

   6. Controlled Experiment on the Supportive Effect of Architectural Component Diagrams for Design Understanding of Novice Architects

      • Thomas Haitzer, Uwe Zdun

      Pages 54-71

3. ADLs and Architectural MetaModels

   1. Software Architecture Documentation for Developers: A Survey

      • Dominik Rost, Matthias Naab, Crescencio Lima, Christina von Flach Garcia Chavez

      Pages 72-88

   2. Analysis Support for TADL2 Timing Constraints on EAST-ADL Models

      • Arda Goknil, Jagadish Suryadevara, Marie-Agnès Peraldi-Frati, Frédéric Mallet

      Pages 89-105

   3. SysADL: A SysML Profile for Software Architecture Description

      • Jair Leite, Flávio Oquendo, Thais Batista

      Pages 106-113

   4. A Lightweight Language for Software Product Lines Architecture Description

      • Eduardo Silva, Ana Luisa Medeiros, Everton Cavalcante, Thais Batista

      Pages 114-121

   5. Towards a Multi-scale Modeling for Architectural Deployment Based on Bigraphs

      • Amal Gassara, Ismael Bouassida Rodriguez, Mohamed Jmaiel

      Pages 122-129

4. Architectural Design Decision-Making

   1. Classification of Design Decisions – An Expert Survey in Practice

      • Cornelia Miesbauer, Rainer Weinreich

      Pages 130-145

   2. Team Situational Awareness and Architectural Decision Making with the Software Architecture Warehouse

      • Marcin Nowak, Cesare Pautasso

      Pages 146-161

   3. Architectural Decision-Making in Enterprises: Preliminary Findings from an Exploratory Study in Norwegian Electricity Industry

      • Mohsen Anvaari, Reidar Conradi, Letizia Jaccheri

      Pages 162-175

   4. Making the Right Decision: Supporting Architects with Design Decision Data

      • Jan Salvador van der Ven, Jan Bosch

      Pages 176-183

   5. Architecture-Centric Modeling of Design Decisions for Validation and Traceability

      • Martin Küster

      Pages 184-191

   6. Difficulty of Architectural Decisions – A Survey with Professional Architects

      • Dan Tofan, Matthias Galster, Paris Avgeriou

      Pages 192-199

5. Software Architecture Conformance and Quality

   1. The Role of Quality Attributes in Service-Based Systems Architecting: A Survey

      • David Ameller, Matthias Galster, Paris Avgeriou, Xavier Franch

      Pages 200-207

   2. Maintaining Architectural Conformance during Software Development: A Practical Approach

      • Claire Dimech, Dharini Balasubramaniam

      Pages 208-223

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2013, held in Montpellier, France, in July 2013. The 25 full papers and 11 poster papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 82 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections named: architectural and design patterns and models; ADLs and architectural MetaModels; architectural design decision-making; software architecture conformance and quality; and architectural repair and adaptation.

• components
• enterprise applications
• formal methods
• software product lines
• verification

• LAAS, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France

  Khalil Drira

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