Exploiting architectural style to develop a family of applications
Medvidovic, N.; Taylor, R.N.
Software Engineering. IEE Proceedings- [see also Software, IEE Proceedings]
Volume 144, Issue 5, Oct/Dec 1997 Page(s):237 - 248
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Summary:Reuse of large-grain software components offers the potential for
significant savings in application development cost and time. Successful
reuse of components and component substitutability depend both on the
qualities of the components reused as well as the software context in
which the reuse is attempted. Disciplined approaches to the structure
and design of software applications offer the potential of providing a
hospitable setting for such reuse. The authors present the results of a
series of exercises designed to determine how well off-the-shelf
constraint solvers could be reused in applications designed in
accordance with the C2 software architectural style. The exercises
involved the reuse of SkyBlue and Amulet's one-way formula constraint
solver. The authors constructed numerous variations of a single
application, i.e. an application family. The paper summarises the style
and presents the results from the exercises. The exercises were
successful in a variety of dimensions; one conclusion is that the C2
style offers significant potential for the development of application
families
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