THE DIRSA CASE-STUDY - AN INTRODUCTION TO SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY

This paper presents an introduction to the issues concerned with engin eering and representation of software architecture. It discusses resea rch ideas and techniques that facilitate architecture-based system con struction and summarizes results from a case study conducted in Lucent Technologies. In this study, we used the generic architecture referen ce model (GARM) and the architecture specification technique (ASPECT) as means of performing architecture engineering and representation in an industrial project. The GARM-ASPECT method has provided a basis for analyses and a technique for building rigorous architectural specific ations that yield practical architectural solutions.