Technical Architecture

Architecture Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz Product Line Architect [email_address] http://www.rgoarchitects.com

Agenda Why Software Architecture? What’s Software Architecture? Architecture types ? Levels ??? Introduction to Architecture Documentation

Discussion What’s Software Architecture

Architecting a dog house Can be built by one person Requires Minimal modeling Simple process Simple tools Kruchten

Architecting a house Built most efficiently and timely by a team Requires Modeling Well-defined process Power tools Kruchten

Architecting a high rise Kruchten

D ifferences Scale Process Cost Schedule Skills and development teams Materials and technologies Stakeholders Risks

Architecture defined Software architecture is what software architects do Beck

Architecture defined Formal Definition IEEE 1471-2000 Software architecture is the fundamental organization of a system, embodied in its components , their relationships to each other and the environment, and the principles governing its design and evolution IEEE 1471-2000

Software architecture encompasses the set of significant decisions about the organization of a software system Selection of the structural elements and their interfaces by which a system is composed Behavior as specified in collaborations among those elements Composition of these structural and behavioral elements into larger subsystems Architectural style that guides this organization Architecture defined Another Go Booch, Kruchten, Reitman, Bittner, and Shaw

Perry and Wolf, 1992 A set of architectural (or design) elements that have a particular form Boehm et al., 1995 A software system architecture comprises A collection of software and system components, connections, and constraints A collection of system stakeholders' need statements A rationale which demonstrates that the components, connections, and constraints define a system that, if implemented, would satisfy the collection of system stakeholders' need statements Clements et al., 1997 The software architecture of a program or computing system is the structure or structures of the system, which comprise software components , the externally visible properties of those components, and the relationships among them Architecture defined Few More http://www.sei.edu/architecture/definitions.html

Common elements 1/2 Architecture defines major components Architecture defines component relationships (structures) and interactions Architecture omits content information about components that does not pertain to their interactions Behavior of components is a part of architecture insofar as it can be discerned from the point of view of another component

Common elements 2/2 Every system has an architecture (even a system composed of one component) Architecture defines the rationale behind the components and the structure Architecture definitions do not define what a component is Architecture is not a single structure -- no single structure is the architecture

Architecture is Early Architecture represents the set of earliest design decisions Hardest to change Most critical to get right Architecture is the first design artifact where a system’s quality attributes are addressed

Architecture Drives Architecture serves as the blueprint for the system but also the project: Team structure Documentation organization Work breakdown structure Scheduling, planning, budgeting Unit testing, integration Architecture establishes the communication and coordination mechanisms among components

Architecture vs. Design non-functional requirements (“ilities”) functional requirements (domains) Important : this is a general guideline – sometimes the borders are blurred Architecture: where non-functional decisions are cast, and functional requirements are partitioned Design: where functional requirements are accomplished architecture design

System Quality Attribute Performance Availability Usability Security Maintainability Portability Reusability Testability End User’s view Developer’s view Time To Market Cost and Benefits Projected life time Targeted Market Integration with Legacy System Roll back Schedule Business Community view A list of quality attributes exists in ISO/IEC 9126-2001 Information Technology – Software Product Quality

Agenda Why Software Architecture? What’s Software Architecture? Software Architecture types ? Levels ??? Introduction to Architecture Documentation

Business Architecture Concerned with the business model as it relates to an automated solution. E-business is a good candidate Structural part of requirements analysis. Domain Specific

Technical Architecture Specific to technology and the use of this technology to structure the technical points (Technology Mapping) of an architecture .NET J2EE Hardware architects

Solutions Architecture Specific to a particular business area (or project) but still reliant on being a technical focal point for communications between the domain architect, business interests and development.

Enterprise Architecture The organizing logic for a firm’s core business processes and IT capabilities captured in a set of principles , policies and technical choices to achieve the business standardization and integration requirements of the firm’s operating model. Concerned with cross project/solution architecture and communication between different practices in architecture.

Product Line Architecture Common Architecture for a set of products or systems developed by an organization

Product Line - Initiation Evolutionary Product line architecture and components evolve with the requirements posed by new product line members. Revolutionary Product line architecture and components developed to match requirements of all expected product-line members

IEEE 1471 - Recap Recommended Practice for Architectural Description of Architectural Description of Software-Intensive Systems Define the Relations between Stakeholders Concerns Views Viewpoint Models Architectural Description

Documentation Conceptual Model IEEE 1471-2000

Stakeholders & their concerns Ease of Integration Ease of Use Functionality Price Dev Costs On Time Delivery Performance Stability & Maintainability Ease of Debugging Modifiability Testability & Traceability Structure & dependency between component Ease of Installation End User Sales Dev Manager Developer Sys Admin Maintainer Customer

Discussion What views do you know / use

Views, Views and more Views RUP – 4 + 1 RM-ODP – 5 DODAF – 3 (top level) Zachman – 36(!) MS – Well…

RM-ODP Viewpoints (2001) Enterprise Information Engineering Technology Computational Manager Database Modeler Operating Sys. Engineer Designers Developer Business model Logical, data modeling Logical view of services Servers, Comm, Physical view of data and services (IDL, WSDL)

Zachman Framework Scope (Ballpark) view Owners View (Enterprise Model) Designers View (System Model) Builder’s View (Technology Model) Out of Context View (Detailed Model) Operational View (Functioning) Data (What) Function (How) Network (Where) People (Who) Time (When) Motivation (Why)

Old Model MSF 3.0 + Views Aimed at business executives Aimed at business process owners Aimed at architects and designers Aimed at designers and developers Contextual Conceptual Logical Physical

Business strategies & processes Applications to facilitate business process Information needed to manage business Technology to support business & application needs Old Model MSF 3.0 + Views Contextual Conceptual Logical Physical Business View Applications View Information View Technology View

New Model set of views and artifacts - Business Capabilities Manual Procedures Technology Architecture Constraints Reconciliation Services, Messages, Applications, Endpoints XML, Projects, DBs, Classes, Code Logical Data Center Physical servers & segments Deployment Units Abstraction/ Refinement Constraints packaged into deployed on Business Processes and Entities Reconciliation Abstraction/ Refinement

Can be mapped… Contextual Conceptual Logical Physical Business Applications Information Technology Business Capabilities Manual Procedures Technology Architecture Constraints Reconciliation Services, Messages, Applications, Endpoints XML, Projects, DBs, Classes, Code Logical Data Center Physical servers & segments Deployment Units Abstraction/ Refinement Constraints packaged into deployed on Business Processes and Entities Reconciliation Abstraction/ Refinement

Models Non-standard Models ADL UML DSL

“ Non Standard” - Block Diagrams EAI Human Workflow ECM DW OLTP E-Publish DAL Service Agents Business Rules Activity Workflow Authorization Monitoring Service Interface Controls Log & Trace Exception Management Configuration Authentication Signing Rich UI Web UI

An ADL Example (in ACME) System simple_cs = { Component client = {Port send-request} Component server = {Port receive-request} Connector rpc = {Roles {caller, callee}} Attachments : {client.send-request to rpc.caller; server.receive-request to rpc.callee} } client send-request server receive-request caller callee rpc

ADL - Pros ADLs represent a formal way of representing architecture ADLs are intended to be both human and machine readable ADLs support describing a system at a higher level than previously possible ADLs permit analysis of architectures – completeness, consistency, ambiguity, and performance ADLs can support automatic generation of simulations / software systems

ADL - Cons There is not universal agreement on what ADLs should represent, particularly as regards the behavior of the architecture Representations currently in use are relatively difficult to parse and are not supported by commercial tools Most ADLs tend to be very vertically optimized toward a particular kind of analysis Most ADL work today has been undertaken with academic rather than commercial goals in mind

DSL Services, Messages, Applications, Endpoints XML, Projects, DBs, Classes, Code Logical Data Center Physical servers & segments Deployment Units Abstraction/ Refinement Constraints packaged into deployed on Business Processes and Entities Reconciliation Abstraction/ Refinement Business Capabilities Manual Procedures Technology Architecture Constraints Reconciliation

ADL - revisited ADLs are essentially a DSL for architecture The Architecture DSLs in VSTS – can be considered as an ADL The difference – VSTS has a set of languages instead of one trying to encompass all views

Discussion What’s the “best” modeling techniques

Discussion How much documentation

Famous Last Words… “ It is a very humbling experience to make a multimillion-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable….” (Fred Brooks - “Mythical Man-Month” p.47)

The Need of Architecture The Winchester “Mystery” House 38 years of construction – 147 builders 0 architects 160 rooms – 40 bedrooms, 6 kitchens, 2 basements, 950 doors 65 doors to blank walls, 13 staircases abandoned, 24 skylights in floors No architectural blueprint exists

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