This presentation highlights some of the current trends in Software Architecture.

1. Università degli Studi dell’Aquila
Henry Muccini
DISIM, University of L’Aquila
henry.muccini@univaq.it, @muccinihenry, www.henrymuccini.com
@University of SPLIT, Croatia – May 2014

2. Researcher at the University of L’Aquila,
Italy
Research
 Software Testing, Verification and Validation
 Model Driven Engineering
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3. Research interests
on developing methods and tools for the
analysis and design of software architectures
→Architecture-driven Model-based Testing, Model-
checking, and V&V
→Models Interoperability in Software Architecture
Descriptions
→Group Decision Making in Software Architecture
→Multi-view Software Architecture Description
→Architecting Wireless Sensor Network
→Engineering Mobile Applications
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4. SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE: BRIEF INTRODUCTION
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5. Software Engineering
Engineered Software SystemSoftware System

6. Software Architecture definitions
Perry and Wolf, ’92 (aspects):
→“Architecture is concerned with the selection of architectural elements,
their interactions, and the constraints on those elements and their
interactions necessary to provide a framework in which to satisfy the
requirements and serve as a basis for the design.”
→Elements are divided into processing elements, data elements and
connection elements
Garlan and Shaw, ’93 (elements):
→ Architecture for a specific system may be captured as “a collection of
computational components - or simply components - together with a
description of the interactions between these components - the connectors
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9. Java
Development
Tools
Plugin
Development
Environment
JFace
SWT
Workbench
Workspace
Runtime
User Interface
Core

10. SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE: TRENDS
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11. Trend #1: research trends
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Architecture
Description
Languages
Design
Decisions/
Architectural
Knowledge
Multi-view
descriptions

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Component-based
Architectures
Service-Oriented
Architectures
Product Line
Architectures
Systems of
Systems
Architectures

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Software
Architecture
System
Architecture
Cyber Physical
Systems
Architecture

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Informal
Formal
Architecture
Description
Languages
UML &
UML Profiles
Informal but
Formal

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