软件体系结构研究综述

Overviews on Software Architecture Research

近年来,软件体系结构逐渐成为软件工程领域的研究热点以及大型软件系统与软件产品线开发中的关键技术之一.归纳了软件体系结构技术发展过程及其主要研究方向.在分析了典型的软件体系结构概念之后,给出了软件体系结构的定义.通过总结软件体系结构领域的若干研究活动,提出了软件体系结构研究的两大思路,并从7个方面介绍了软件体系结构研究进展.探讨了软件体系结构研究中的不足之处,并分析其原因.作为总结,给出了软件体系结构领域最有前途的发展趋势.

Software architecture (SA) is emerging as one of the primary research areas in software engineering recently and one of the key technologies to the development of large-scale software-intensive system and software product line system. The history and the major direction of SA are summarized, and the concept of SA is brought up based on analyzing and comparing the several classical definitions about SA. Based on summing up the activities about SA, two categories of study about SA are extracted out, and the advancements of researches on SA are subsequently introduced from seven aspects. Additionally, some disadvantages of study on SA are discussed, and the causes are explained at the same time. Finally, it is concluded with some significantly promising tendency about research on SA.