UML based Documentation for GLORY Software Architecture

Enriching software architecture documentation

The effective documentation of Architectural Knowledge (AK) is one of the key factors in leveraging the paradigm shift toward sharing and reusing AK. However, current documentation approaches have severe shortcomings in capturing the knowledge of large and complex systems and subsequently facilitating its usage. In this paper, we propose to tackle this problem through the enrichment of traditio...

Software Architecture Documentation for Developers: A Survey

Software Architecture Description and UML

The description of software architectures has always been concerned with the definition of the appropriate languages for designing the various architectural artifacts. Over the past ten years, formal or less formal Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) and supporting methods and tools have been proposed by researchers. More recently, UML has been widely accepted in both industry and academi...

Describing Software Architecture with UML

This paper describes our experience using UML, the Unified Modeling Language, to describe the software architecture of a system. We found that it works well for communicating the static structure of the architecture: the elements of the architecture, their relations, and the variability of a structure. These static properties are much more readily described with it than the dynamic properties. ...

Textual model-based software/system architecture documentation using MPS

A system architecture provides essential communication means between the architect and the user of the system diminishing thus the risk of misunderstanding during the development phase. In many domains, the tools used for documentation are word processors, typically Microsoft Word. However such tools allow to manipulate text with little structure only thus potentially yielding many inconsistenc...