Architecture Description Languages Taxonomies Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-74
Author(s):  
Fateh Boutekkouk
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Distributed Embedded Systems ◽  
Systems Architecture ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Architecture Description Languages ◽  
Architecture Description ◽  
Description Languages ◽  
Self Adaptive

Self-adaptive distributed embedded systems can automatically adjust their behavior and/or structure at run time to respond to some predictable or unpredictable events. On the other hand, architecture description languages (ADLs) are qualified to be a convenient solution to model systems architecture as a set of components with well-defined interfaces and links. ADLs have been well-studied and applied in many engineering areas beyond the software and hardware engineering. This research work reviews the most relevant ADLs taxonomies and surveys from 2000 till now, selects the most suitable ADLs for self-adaptive embedded systems, and compares between standard and non-standard ADLs based on some key criteria. To do this, a search methodology was followed enabling a systematic review. Results showed that only a few standard ADL have been accepted by the embedded industry favoring domain-specific ADLs with a proved support of adaptivity, real time, energy consumption and security.

scholarly journals Architecture Description Language – Systematic Literature Review: دراسة استقصائية حول لغات توصيف معمارية البرمجيات

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahani Elfatih Babeker, Hany Ammar
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Software Architecture ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Architecture Description Languages ◽  
Architecture Description ◽  
Description Languages ◽  
High Level

  increase numbers and complexity of software development requires that learners of software engineering and software architecture or software architects who do not have sufficient practical experience must have the skills and abilities to perform their jobs. But there is a gap between academia and practical so the question why does not use one of the architecture description languages in teaching and learn software engineering and software architecture to fill this gap? The objective of this study to classification ADLs according to their domain, domain specific or general purpose languages, doing these systematic literature review flowing the steps from Ketchenham. As the result we find that most ADLs are Domain Specific ADLs (Aviation Systems, Distribution Systems, Mobile Systems, Product Lines …etc. ) none of these ADLs is used in the field of software architecture education, but most intended to deal with experts in the field, except general purpose ADLs, like ACME, which we make as start point to design Arabic ADL, so as to enrich Arabic content, also to be as helping language in teaching Software Architecture course, because most of ADLs need experience and high level of understanding to use, moreover, when student think and design with same language subject more understandable. So using software architecture description languages in educating purpose, help on understanding high level of abstraction of software architecture and software engineering courses, there are some studies that aimed to reduce the complexity of these courses using different methodologies and approaches, but none of them using architecture description languages as helping tool. So the use of architecture description languages is helpful in teaching software architecture and software engineering courses.  

scholarly journals Introducing Reflection in Architecture Description Languages

2002 ◽  
pp. 143-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos E. Cuesta ◽  
Pablo de la Fuente ◽  
Manuel Barrio-Solórzano ◽  
M. Encarnación Beato
Keyword(s):  
Architecture Description Languages ◽  
Architecture Description ◽  
Description Languages

scholarly journals Model Testing of Complex Embedded Systems Using EAST-ADL and Energy-Aware Mutations

Designs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Eduard Paul Enoiu ◽  
Cristina Seceleanu
Keyword(s):  
Embedded Systems ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Model Testing ◽  
Functional Requirements ◽  
Energy Aware ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Architectural Models ◽  
Architecture Description

Nowadays, embedded systems are increasingly complex, meaning that traditional testing methods are costly to use and infeasible to directly apply due to the complex interactions between hardware and software. Modern embedded systems are also demanded to function based on low-energy computing. Hence, testing the energy usage is increasingly important. Artifacts produced during the development of embedded systems, such as architectural descriptions, are beneficial abstractions of the system’s complex structure and behavior. Electronic Architecture and Software Tools Architecture Description Language (EAST-ADL) is one such example of a domain-specific architectural language targeting the automotive industry. In this paper, we propose a method for testing design models using EAST-ADL architecture mutations. We show how fault-based testing can be used to generate, execute and select tests using energy-aware mutants—syntactic changes in the architectural description, used to mimic naturally occurring energy faults. Our goal is to improve testing of complex embedded systems by moving the testing bulk from the actual systems to models of their behaviors and non-functional requirements. We combine statistical model-checking, increasingly used in quality assurance of embedded systems, with EAST-ADL architectural models and mutation testing to drive the search for faults. We show the results of applying this method on an industrial-sized system developed by Volvo GTT. The results indicate that model testing of EAST-ADL architectural models can reduce testing complexity by bringing early and cost-effective automation.

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