{"title":"Languages for formalizing, visualizing and verifying software architectures","authors":"Rob van Ommering , René Krikhaar , Loe Feijs","doi":"10.1016/S0096-0551(01)00013-3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper we describe languages for formalizing, visualizing and verifying software architectures. This helps us in solving two related problems: (1) the reconstruction of architectures of existing systems, and (2) the definition and verification of architectures of new systems. We define an expression language for formulating architectural rules, a graph language for visualizing various structures of design, and a dialogue language for interactively exercising the former two languages. We have applied these languages in a number of industrial cases.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100315,"journal":{"name":"Computer Languages","volume":"27 1","pages":"Pages 3-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0096-0551(01)00013-3","citationCount":"20","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Computer Languages","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0096055101000133","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this paper we describe languages for formalizing, visualizing and verifying software architectures. This helps us in solving two related problems: (1) the reconstruction of architectures of existing systems, and (2) the definition and verification of architectures of new systems. We define an expression language for formulating architectural rules, a graph language for visualizing various structures of design, and a dialogue language for interactively exercising the former two languages. We have applied these languages in a number of industrial cases.