Towards an architectural viewpoint for systems of software intensive systems
John Brøndum, Liming Zhu · 2010
An important aspect of architectural knowledge is the capture of software relationships [25]. But current definitions [25, 21, 23] do not adequately capture external system relationships [5], and offer no guidance on implicit relationships [29]. This leaves architects either unaware of critical relationships or, to 'roll their own' based on aggregations of code-level call structures, resulting in critical architectural gaps and communication problems within Systems of Software intensive Systems (S3) environments [2]. These environments may also restrict the sharing of architectural knowledge due to either legal, or contractual constraints, or overwhelm due to the size and number of involved systems adding to the challenges of identifying and describing the relationships.