Linguistic support for the evolutionary design of software architectures
T.C. Nicholas Graham, Tore Urnes · International Conference on Software Engineering · 1996
As a program's functionality evolves over time, its software architecture should evolve as well so that it continues to match the program's design. This paper introduces the architecture language of Clock, a language for the development of interactive, multiuser applications. This architecture language possesses three properties supporting the easy restructuring of software architectures: restricted scoping supported by a constraint-based communication system, automatic message routing, and easy hierarchical restructuring of architectures. Clock's architecture language has a visual syntax, supported by the Clock-Works programming environment.