A Model Driven Approach for Automating Architecture Documentation Process

Software architecture documentation is a heavyweight process since it involves development and management of various documentation artifacts. Architectural views and architecture description languages (ADLs) are two examples of those artifacts each of which presents mostly similar information in different forms. So, there is a redundant documentation effort when two models are developed separately. In this paper, we present a model-driven approach for automatically transforming architectural views to AADL models. Architectural views that are defined based on our proposed metamodel is transformed to AADL model. In addition to elimination of redundant documentation effort, this approach also enhances architecture documentation process by ensuring consistency among views and AADL models.