On Designing Software Architectures.

On Designing Software Architectures

As the size and complexity of software has rapidly grown during the past two decades, it has become a big challenge to assure quality of software and to curb the cost of developing software. Many ways have to be brought to bear in order to meet this challenge. One of them is the design and documentation of software architecture. In this article, I discuss various aspects of designing and docume...

Software Architectures for Designing Virtual Reality Applications

Designing software architectures to facilitate accessible Web applications

D. Hoffman E. Grivel L. Battle The Web application is increasingly a platform of choice for complex business software and online services. However, it remains a challenge to ensure that the Web application is easy, efficient, and effective for people with disabilities. Accessibility requires that users with disabilities, including those who are blind, have low vision, or have mobility impairmen...

Designing Mobile Aspect- Oriented Software Architectures with Ambients

This chapter focuses on designing software architectures of mobile applications using an Aspect-Oriented Architecture Description Language (AOADL). The AOADL follows an approach called Ambient-PRISMA which enables designers to address, in an explicit and abstract way, the notion of location and mobility. Concretely, the AOADL extends the PRISMA AOADL by introducing a primitive called an ambient...

Designing software architectures to achieve quality attribute requirements

In order to have a software architecture design method that achieves quality attribute requirements several aspects of the method must be in place. First there must be some way to specify quality attribute requirements so that it can be determined whether the designed architecture can achieve them. Secondly, there must be some way for modularising the knowledge associated with quality attribute...