Checking architectural compliance in component-based systems
Sebastian Herold · 2010
The software architecture of software systems often imposes constraints upon the design and the implementation of a system, for example upon how components are logically grouped or upon how they may interact. It is of great importance for the sake of maintainability and smooth operation of a software system that its design and implementation are compliant to its intended software architecture. Due to the complexity of today's software systems and the diversity of those constraints, guaranteeing the compliance by manual checks is impossible. Unfortunately, current tool support is not flexible enough to easily check different aspects of architectural compliance.