Towards software architecture at runtime
Gang L. Huang, Hong Mei, Qian-Xiang Wang · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 2003
As Internet and wireless network make the runtime environment much more dynamic and open, software becomes more and more complex and difficult to maintain. Software architecture at run-time (RSA) can help maintainers understand and reason the run-time system. Moreover, RSA helps to keep SA consistent in the whole software lifecycle. This paper presents an approach to three fundamental issues of RSA, including making RSA the first-class entity at runtime, maintaining the causal-connection between RSA and the runtime system, and mapping RSA from/into SA at the design phase.