Developing object oriented designs from component and connector architectures

Abstract

In this paper, a systematic approach of developing detail OO designs from component and connector architectures (CCAs) is proposed. In this approach, an intermediate model between the architecture model and the detail design model specified with class diagrams or sequence diagrams is introduced to narrow the wide gap between the two abstraction levels. Once a CCA is designed, candidate classes and their relationships are identified per each architectural element. In order to show the efficacy of this approach, we apply it to an industry software development project and verify that quality attributes supported by the CCA are equally maintained by the detail design.