You can use notations and tools other than those we describe, as well as other design methods, especial ly for the logical and process decom positions. This use of multiple views allows to address separately the concerns of the various stakeholders of the architecture. In this paper we describe a usecase model for an architectural knowledge base, together with its underlying ontology. Architectural view model for an integration platform. Kruchten, documentation of software architecture from a knowledge management. This use of multiple views allows to address separately the concerns of the. The definition of software architecture as per ieee recommended practice for architectural description of software. Physical view is used for depicting how the software is deployed in data centers. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Applying viewpoints and views to software architecture.
Architectural views logical view implementation view process view deployment view usecase 1 view 2 3 4 5 part 3. The process model illustrates the course registration classes. In summary, you can think of the c4 model as a simplified version of the underlying concepts, designed to 1 make it easier for software developers to describe and understand how a software system works and 2 to minimise the gap between. An ibm rational approach to the department of defense. A template for documenting software and firmware architectures. Also i am interested on to marry lightweight processes and architecture. The main difference is the proposal of two additional views. Scope the scope of this sad is to depict the architecture of the online catering application created by the company yummy inc. Architectural mailboxes 4in antique brass number 1 in the. The data model for a given system can be seen as an architectural view. The four views correspond to the key perspectives that go into architecting a software solution. An architectural viewpoint is a collection of patterns, templates, and conventions for constructing one type of view. The logical view describes the designs object model, the process view describes the designs concurrency and synchronization aspects.
The use case view is important input to the selection of the set of scenarios andor use cases that are the focus of an iteration. Instead of having a single view that doesnt capture all of the necessary perspectives of the system you would apply kruchtens view model. In a project with high concurrency and complex timing it would make sense to ensure the process view gets ample time. The c4 model was created by simon brown, who started teaching people about software architecture, while working as a software developerarchitect in london. The architectural view of the use case model contains only architecturally significant use cases whereas the final use case model contains all the use cases. I, the holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license. Abstract this article presents a model for describing the architecture of softwareintensive systems, based on the use of multiple, concurrent views. The views are used to describe the system in the viewpoint of different stakeholders, such as endusers, developers and project managers. The four views or perspectives of this model are shown in figure 5 in the following. Process view overview consists of the processes and threads that form the systems concurrency and synchronization mechanisms, as well as their interactions addresses issues such as. The four views or perspectives of this model are shown in figure 5 in the following sections the system design is presented from. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license.
Data model as an architectural view october 2009 technical note paulo merson. The four views are the logical view, development view, process view, and physical view. A common temptationone you should strongly avoidis to try to create an architectural description containing a single, heavily overloaded, allencompassing model. This use of multiple views allows to address separately the concerns of the various stakeholders of. Regardless of where you find yourself on the softwarearchitecturespectrumbattler, there are always various concurrent views, each of which addresses a specific set of concerns. Achieving the right level of detail in an architectural description is a major challenge for any architect. Then physical view will show how many servers are used, what is the role of their server, what software components are installed on it, etc. Putting together ontologies, use cases and tool support, we are able to reason about which types of architecting tasks can be supported, and how this can be done. This 2009 report describes the data model as an architectural style in an effort to help architects apply this style to create data model architectural views. In integrated processes view are modeled business processes which should be automated on integration platform. Here are some recent publications on this topic most recent first. Table 1 shows the comparison of architectural view models. This publication doesnt make specific references to uml. A description of the usecase view of the software architecture.
The second in a twopart series, this article describes the systems view sv and technical standards view tv products of the department of defense dod architecture framework dodaf. In the last few years, i have been interested in architectural design decisions and architectural knowledge. For each view the structure of the components and the dynamic. There is no set of fixed rules you can apply to get a final architecture.
Architects capture their design decisions in four views and use the fifth view to illustrate and validate them. This article presents a model for describing the architecture of softwareintensive systems, based on the use of multiple, concurrent views. Part of simons training course was a design exercise, where groups of people were given some requirements, asked to do some design, and to draw some diagrams to express that design. Part 1 of the article presents an overview of the dodaf and describes the operational view ov products. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda.