Software Architecture Specification Based on a Framework and Role Type
Tie Feng · 2000
Development based on software architecture is one of the most promising methods for improving software quality, reducing software cost and raising software productivity. Viewing architecture elements as first class entities, the authors present a specification method based on framework and role type to alleviate the problems that conventional methods may bring, and define a specification language FRADL (framework and role type based architecture description language) in this paper. In FRADL, framework is considered as a component and role type with active connecting faculty is defined as a connector. The instances of components and connectors are configured to compose the architecture for a family of software systems.