Comparative Analysis of Software Architecture Documentation and Architecture Languages

Abstract

Research on software Architecture is vigorous from the early 90's and its lead to a number of different architecture description languages (ADLs). These languages are increasing in a huge amount and are different in term of analysis produced by these languages and abstraction supported by them. Moreover, a lot of other languages not intended as ADL serve reasonably fine on analyzing and representing software architecture like Unified Modeling Language 2.0. UML accomplish approximately all necessities of Architecture Description Language. This research work focuses on comparative analysis of Architecture description languages and software architecture documentation on the bases of usability, connector support, formal semantics, behavioral specification, Language quality, views and dynamic architecture support.