Materialization Patterns: A Bridge Between Software Architectures and Object-Oriented Design

GERMAN L. VAZQUEZ; MARCELO R. CAMPO; JORGE ANDRES DIAZ PACE

Mendoza, Argentina

Congreso; Simposio Argentino de Ingenieria de Software - ASSE 2006 (35 JAIIO); 2006

SADIO

Software architectures enable to capture early design decisions in the software design process in order to fulfill system quality attributes. In principle, many object-oriented implementations can be derived from the same architecture. However, there may be potential mismatches between the quality attributes prescribed by an architecture and those fulfilled by a derived objectoriented system. We argue that a significant step towards reducing these mismatches is the organization of a body of design knowledge and systematic reasoning procedures enabling tool support for semi-automating the materialization of software architectures. In this paper, we propose a patternbased approach consisting of a catalog of object-oriented pattern specifications and a set of design activities to perform materializations of software architectures in such a way the quality attributes are preserved in the derived systems.