Resolving Architectural Mismatches of COTS Through Architectural Reconciliation

Abstract. The integration of COTS components into a system under development entails architectural mismatches. These have been tackled, so far, at the component level, through component adaptation techniques, but they also must ed at an architectural level of abstraction. In this paper we propose an approach for resolving architectural mismatches, with the aid of architectural reconciliation. The approach consists of designing and subsequently reconciling two architectural models, one that is forward-engineered from the requirements and another that is reverse-engineered from the COTS-based implementation. The final reconciled model is optimally adapted both to the requirements and to the actual COTS-based implementation. The contribution of this paper lies in the application of architectural reconciliation in the context of COTS-based software development. Architectural modeling is based upon the UML 2.0 standard, while the reconciliation is performed by transforming the two models, w...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ICCBSS
• Authors: Paris Avgeriou, Nicolas Guelfi
• Keywords: Architectural, Architectural Mismatches, Architectural Reconciliation, ICCBSS 2005, Software Engineering