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Executable Architectures for Complex Software Systems

Authors:
Sebastian Apel
Thomas M. Prinz

Keywords: Software Architectures; Distributed Systems; Development Tools; Model Transformation

Abstract:
The design and implementation of complex software systems can be achieved by modern software architecture styles and well-chosen tool stacks. The resulting systems have their benefits in technical cleanliness, reproducibility, and automation (e.g., of processes). However, there is a gap between the design of the system architecture and its implementation. Well-advised architectures get lost in tool configurations and implementations of simple service-to-service communications that both do not belong to the scope of the architecture. How could this gap be closed without losing the advantages of tool stacks? This paper introduces the idea of focusing not on toolstacks, but on data models, data streams, algorithms, and business logic. Instead of designing architectures for documentation and overview, the architecture itself represents the executable system software. Our main idea is to describe the data model used in architectures and provide a language to describe the data's transformations.

Pages: 10 to 12

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2021

Publication date: April 18, 2021

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3549

ISBN: 978-1-61208-844-0

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from April 18, 2021 to April 22, 2021