Evolve: tool support for architecture evolution

PDF DOI 10.1145/1985793.1985990 dblp

Abstract

Incremental change is intrinsic to both the initial development and subsequent evolution of large complex software systems. Evolve is a graphical design tool that captures this incremental change in the definition of software architecture. It supports a principled and manageable way of dealing with unplanned change and extension. In addition, Evolve supports decentralized evolution in which software is extended and evolved by multiple independent developers. Evolve supports a model-driven approach in that architecture definition is used to directly construct both initial implementations and extensions to these implementations. The tool implements Backbone - an architectural description language (ADL), which has both a textual and a UML2, based graphical representation. The demonstration focuses on the graphical representation.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{McVeigh-al:ICSE11,
  author    = {Andrew McVeigh and
               Jeff Kramer and
               Jeff Magee},
  title     = {Evolve: tool support for architecture evolution},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {1040--1042},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2011},
}

Evolve: tool support for architecture evolution

Abstract

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