台湾成功大学软件工程课件ch10.ppt

Chapter 10 Architectural Design Architectural Design Establishing the overall structure of a software system Objectives To introduce architectural design and to discuss its importance To explain why multiple models are required to document a software architecture To describe types of architectural model that may be used To discuss how domain-specific reference models may be used as a basis for product-lines and to compare software architectures Topics covered System structuring Control models Modular decomposition Domain-specific architectures Software architecture The design process for identifying the sub-systems making up a system and the framework for sub-system control and communication is architectural design The output of this design process is a description of the software architecture Architectural design An early stage of the system design process Represents the link between specification and design processes Often carried out in parallel with some specification activities It involves identifying major system components and their communications Advantages of explicit architecture Stakeholder communication Architecture may be used as a focus of discussion by system stakeholders System analysis Means that analysis of whether the system can meet its non-functional requirements is possible Large-scale reuse The architecture may be reusable across a range of systems Architectural design process System structuring The system is decomposed into several principal sub-systems and communications between these sub-systems are identified Control modelling A model of the control relationships between the different parts of the system is established Modular decomposition The identified sub-systems are decomposed into modules Sub-systems and modules A sub-system is a system in its own right whose operation is independent of the services provided by other sub-systems. A module is a system component that provides services to other components but would not normally be consi