MODULAR VIEWS ON SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE SYSTEMS

In general, software architecture is documented using software architecture views to address the different stakeholder concerns. The current trend recognizes that the set of viewpoints should not be fixed but multiple viewpoints. To ensure the quality of the software architecture various software architecture evaluation approaches have been introduced. The evaluation of the adopted viewpoints that are used to design and document the software architecture has not been considered explicitly. If the architectural viewpoints are not well-defined then implicitly this will have an impact on the quality of the design and the documentation of the software architecture. We present a modular view for assessing existing or newly defined software architecture viewpoint languages. The approach is based on software language engineering techniques, These user groups (stakeholders) have different concerns relevant to the models the modular views provide a means to visualize complex information and are also a way to fulfill the concerns of different user groups. In this paper the concept of modularity is to show how these multiple views addresses the stakeholders concerns. The different viewpoints are identified to construct ct the multiple views.