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A Formal Basis for Architectural Connection

Robert Allen and David Garlan.


In ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Vol. 6(3):213-249, July 1997.

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Abstract
As software systems become more complex the overall system structure -- or software architecture -- becomes a central design problem. An important step towards an engineering discipline of software is a formal basis for describing and analyzing these designs. In this paper we present a formal approach to one aspect of architectural design: the interactions between components. The key idea is to define architectural connectors as explicit semantic entities. These are specified as a collection of protocols that characterize each of the participant roles in an interaction and how these roles interact. We illustrate how this scheme can be used to define a variety of common architectural connectors. We further provide a formal semantics and show how this leads to a system in which architectural compatibility can be checked in a way analogous to type checking in programming languages.

Keywords: Formal Methods, Model Checking, Software Architecture.  
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