(Software) Architecture Resources

Below you will find a list of (on-line and off-line) resources on (software) architecture and related material. This page is permanently under construction. Send me e-mail if you have comments or additional resources.

Update (december 2003): our book (in Dutch) about software architecture is out; see the home page about details.

Background

• Roots of software architecture, Software Engineering Institute

Definitions

• Definitions of Software Architecture at SEI (you can add your own)
• Definition of the IEEE recommended practice for Architectural Description (it's in the FAQ).
  Note that the IEEE-P1471-2000 is now an IEEE/ANSI Standard.

The relationship to reuse

• Reuse Information Clearinghouse Home Page. It's very slow, but holds lots of interesting material such as:
  • DoD SRI Vision and Strategy A vision document describing the Software Reuse Initiative of the DoD
  • Software Reuse Primer An executive overview of the issues surrounding reuse
  • Reuse Publications Pointers to on-line and off-line resources on reuse
• The STARS site has (old) DoD information about architecture, product-line approaches and reuse
• SEI's Product Line Practice Initiative also relates to reuse and architecture.

Architecture and product lines

• The ESAPS project worked on software architectures for product lines
• SEI's Product Line Practice Initiative also relates to reuse and architecture.

Dynamic Software Architectures

Dynamic software architectures facilitate runtime changes and evolution.

• See Peyman Oreizy's pages on Dynamic Software Architectures

Architecture maturity

Maturity is mostly discussed on enterprise level. See the following for details:

• IT Architecture Maturity Model, Dept. of Commerce

Architecture recovery/re-architecting

• Paper: A Two-phase Process for Software Architecture Improvement by Chris Verhoef.
• The FAMOOS project at the University of Berne (OO re-engineering)
• ProjectBauhaus, Software Architecture, Software Reengineering, and Program Understanding

Architecture analysis and reviews

Some links on review methods and related work

• Nico Lassing's research into architecture analysis
• SEI's architecture trade-off analysis initiative
• Jan Bosch has worked on analysis - check his home page

Architecture (Description) Languages & Tools

Some of the things being worked on (not all checked recently):

• The xArch site - XML based representation of software architectures.
• Paul Clements survey of ADL's at the SEI
• CMU CS Composable Software Systems Home Page
• ABLE Project's Home Page focusing on the Wright language, the Aesop environment generator and the ACME architecture description language
• The Vitruvius Project with the Unicon language
• The Stanford Rapide Project Executable architecture description language for distributed, multi-language systems
• MetaH and ControlH at Honeywell
• The Darwin Language at Imperial College
• Booch's presentation on UML and software architecture on Rational's UML Resource Center
• The Architecture Description Markup Language at MCC
• The Use Case Maps site.
• Amon Eden's work on formalizing patterns and architectures in Lepus
• Keng Ng's pages on a software assistant and a Java version

Groups/people working on software architecture

The following sites contain (references to) information about software architecture research, groups, languages, systems, etc.

• Gerrit Muller's Gaudi project on System Architecture at Philips Research.
• Barry Boehm's group at USC.
• Kevin Sullivan at the University of Virginia.
• Jan Bosch RISE/ARCS group in Sweden, focusing on product lines, OO frameworks and composition.
• Jan Bosch is now (back) in the Netherlands at Groningen University - see his Home Page there.
• The DSSA Adage site at Honeywell. Focusing on Domain Specific Software Architectures.
• Don Batory's Product Line Architectures/Software Systems Generator group  at the University of Texas
• Krzysztof Czarnecki's home page about generative programming and feature models.
• The page for Czarnecki and Eisenecker's book on generative programming
• The ARES project
• Software Architecture work at SERL
• The Software Architecture group at St-Andrews University in the UK
• Mehmet Aksit's TRESE group at Twente University
• Lieberherr's Demeter group
• SERC's pages on software architecture (in Dutch)
• Dewayne Perry at the University of Texas, Austin.
• Mary Shaw at Carnegie Mellon University
• Alert Automation System's pages on architecture (in Dutch)
• ProjectBauhaus, Software Architecture, Software Reengineering, and Program Understanding

Architecture in a broader sense

Architecture is often considered in a broader sense. Here are some references to sites

• The Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement focuses on enterprise architectures
• Het GIA - Genootschap voor Informatie Architecten   is a Dutch group working on information architecture
• The International Enterprise Architecture Center focusing on - obviously - enterprise level architectures.
• The Open Group Architectural Framework, providing a (methodological) tool to create architectures.

Conferences, seminars, et cetera

This isn't updated regularly, so some dates may be outdated!

• WICSA 2001 - The Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture in Amsterdam in 2001
• LAC 2000 - Landelijk Architectuur Congres (Dutch)
• LAC 2001 - Landelijk Architectuur Congres, November 2001 (Dutch)
• LAC 2002 - Landelijk Architectuur Congres, November 2002 (Dutch)
• LAC 2003 - Landelijk Architectuur Congres, November 2003 (Dutch)
• LAC 2004 - Landelijk Architectuur Congres, November 2004 (Dutch)

Books

Here are some pointers to books on software architecture and related things

• Len Bass, Paul Clements & Rick Kazman; Software Architecture in Practice, Addison-Wesley, 1998
• Mary Shaw, Garlan David; Software Architecture : Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline, Prentice Hall, 1996
• Eberhardt Rechtin, Mark W. Maier; The Art of Systems Architecting (Systems Engineering Series), CRC Pr, 1996
• Jan Bosch, Design and Use of Software Architectures, Addison Wesley, 2000
• Christine Hofmeister Robert Nord Dilip Soni, Applied Software Architecture, Addison Wesley, 2000
• David Dikel, David Kane, James Y. Wilson, Software Architecture: Organizational Principles and Patterns, Prentice Hall, 2000
• Marc Sewell, Laura Sewell, The Software Architect's Profession, An Introduction, Prentice Hall, 2001
• Paul Clements, et.al., Evaluating Software Architectures: Methods and Case Studies , Addison Wesley, 2002
• Paul Clements, et.al. Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, Addison Wesley, 2002
• Martin Fowler, et.al: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Addison Wesley Professional, 2002.
• Stephen T. Albin, The Art of Software Architecture: Design Methods and Techniques, Wiley, 2003.
• Luke Hohman, Beyond Software Architecture: Creating and Sustaining Winning Solutions, Addison Wesley, 2003
• Len Bass, Paul Clements & Rick Kazman; Software Architecture in Practice, 2nd edition, Addison-Wesley, 2003
• Gert Florijn, et al.; Softwarearchitectuur - overzicht en compendium, Ten Hagen & Stam, 2003.

Bibliographies

These are lists of references to papers, books and reports concerning software architecture.

• Rich Holt's annotated bibliography
• Jianjun Zhao's bibliography on Software Architecture Analysis
• Rick Kazman's Software Architecture bibliography at the University of Waterloo
• SEI's bibliography. This list contains pointers to other lists.
• Software architecture references for the current course on Software Architecture at Utrecht University
• Software architecture references used for the 1994-1995 version of the course on Software Architecture that I gave at Utrecht University.

Standardisation/organisations

• IEEE 1471 recommended practice for Architectural Description. It's official as of autumn 2000, and now also supportd by ANSI (2001)!
• The International council on Systems Engineering Architecture Working Group
• The World Wide Institute of Software Architects has - among others - a page of the role of an architect in the phases of development
• Object Management Group, Model Driven Architecture Initiative

Courses on software architecture

Courses on software architecture that I've found when I looked

• Software Architecture at Computer and Information Science Department, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
• Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science has a course of software architecture (that I used to teach, and now again do).

Other resources

• Jim Holt's page on software architecture
• Dana Bredemeyer's resources for software architects.
• Software Architecture resource sites at UMass in Dartmouth.
• Software Architecture Information at the SEI.
• Patterns Home Page
• My software patterns resources
• Model Problems in Software Architecture
• The Software Systems Architecture Discussion List is an unmoderated, unarchived forum for informal discussion of issues pertaining to the architecture of large, software-intensive systems in both its theoretical and practical aspects. Subscribe by mailing to: soft-sys-arch-request@spectre.mitre.org
• See David Garlan's ideas in the Future of Software Engineering
• IT Architecture, lessons learned

Gert Florijn - Last modifed: 07/07/2005