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Reliable Software Technologies — Ada-Europe '96 (Ada-Europe 1996)

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Software architecture has come to be recognized as a discipline distinct from software design. Over the past five years, we have been developing and testing a practical software architecture method at the MITRE Software Center. The method begins with an initial statement of system goals, the purchaser's vision for the system, and needs, an abstraction of the system's requirements. Multiple views of the system are then developed, to address specific architectural concerns. Each view is defined in terms of components, connections and constraints and validated against the needs. This paper briefly introduces the method and describes our experiences with its “alpha” and “beta” applications to two U.S. Army management information systems.

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  1. CAATS Development Facility, Hughes Aircraft of Canada, #200, 13571 Commerce Parkway, V6V 2J3, Richmond, BC, Canada

    David E. Emery

  2. The MITRE Corporation, Mail Stop B155, 01730, Bedford, MA, USA

    Richard F. Hilliard II & Timothy B. Rice

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Emery, D.E., Hilliard, R.F., Rice, T.B. (1996). Experiences applying a practical architectural method. In: Strohmeier, A. (eds) Reliable Software Technologies — Ada-Europe '96. Ada-Europe 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1088. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0013511

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