SafArchie Studio: ArgoUML extensions to build safe architectures

Abstract

Nowadays, no standard and universal definition of software architecture was accepted by all the community. Various points of view on different studies bring to several approaches. These approaches focus on only one or two concerns such as component interfaces specification, behavioral analysis or software reconfiguration. This paper argues that, in order to accrue the true benefits of software architecture approaches, one may need to use an architecture centric approach with a global reasoning: From software architecture design to software architecture management to software architecture building, deployment and refinement. However, these different concerns of a software architecture definition must be in consistency. For this reason, we based our approach on architecture types that are points of reference at each step of our reasoning. We offer with SafArchie Studio, a first architecture centric approach based on three-view perspective and driven by the component life cycle. © 2005 by International Federation for Information Processing.