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Software Engineering-Architectural Design

The document discusses different architectural styles for software design. It defines architectural design as representing the design framework for developing a computer system including hardware and software components and their interfaces. There are several common architectural styles including: 1. Data-centered architectures where a central data store is accessed by other components to update, modify, or retrieve data. 2. Data flow architectures where input data is transformed through a series of computational components connected by pipes to produce output data. 3. Call and return architectures including remote procedure call architectures that distribute components across networked computers and main program/subprogram architectures with a control hierarchy.

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Software Engineering-Architectural Design

The document discusses different architectural styles for software design. It defines architectural design as representing the design framework for developing a computer system including hardware and software components and their interfaces. There are several common architectural styles including: 1. Data-centered architectures where a central data store is accessed by other components to update, modify, or retrieve data. 2. Data flow architectures where input data is transformed through a series of computational components connected by pipes to produce output data. 3. Call and return architectures including remote procedure call architectures that distribute components across networked computers and main program/subprogram architectures with a control hierarchy.

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Software Engineering | Architectural

Design
Introduction: The software needs the architectural design to represents the design of
software. IEEE defines architectural design as “the process of defining a collection of
hardware and software components and their interfaces to establish the framework for
the development of a computer system.” The software that is built for computer-based
systems can exhibit one of these many architectural styles.
Each style will describe a system category that consists of :

 A set of components(eg: a database, computational modules) that will


perform a function required by the system.
 The set of connectors will help in coordination, communication, and
cooperation between the components.
 Conditions that how components can be integrated to form the system.
 Semantic models that help the designer to understand the overall properties
of the system.
The use of architectural styles is to establish a structure for all the components of the
system.
Taxonomy of Architectural styles:

1. Data centered architectures:


 A data store will reside at the center of this architecture and is
accessed frequently by the other components that update, add,
delete or modify the data present within the store.
 The figure illustrates a typical data centered style. The client
software access a central repository. Variation of this approach
are used to transform the repository into a blackboard when data
related to client or data of interest for the client change the
notifications to client software.
 This data-centered architecture will promote integrability. This
means that the existing components can be changed and new
client components can be added to the architecture without the
permission or concern of other clients.
 Data can be passed among clients using blackboard mechanism.
2. Data flow architectures:
 This kind of architecture is used when input data to be
transformed into output data through a series of computational
manipulative components.
 The figure represents pipe-and-filter architecture since it uses
both pipe and filter and it has a set of components called filters
connected by pipes.
 Pipes are used to transmit data from one component to the next.
 Each filter will work independently and is designed to take data
input of a certain form and produces data output to the next filter
of a specified form. The filters don’t require any knowledge of
the working of neighboring filters.
 If the data flow degenerates into a single line of transforms, then
it is termed as batch sequential. This structure accepts the batch
of data and then applies a series of sequential components to
transform it.
3. Call and Return architectures: It is used to create a program that is easy
to scale and modify. Many sub-styles exist within this category. Two of
them are explained below.
 Remote procedure call architecture: This components is used
to present in a main program or sub program architecture
distributed among multiple computers on a network.
 Main program or Subprogram architectures: The main
program structure decomposes into number of subprograms or
function into a control hierarchy. Main program contains number
of subprograms that can invoke other components.

4. Object Oriented architecture: The components of a system encapsulate data


and the operations that must be applied to manipulate the data. The
coordination and communication between the components are established via
the message passing.
5. Layered architecture:
 A number of different layers are defined with each layer
performing a well-defined set of operations. Each layer will do
some operations that becomes closer to machine instruction set
progressively.
 At the outer layer, components will receive the user interface
operations and at the inner layers, components will perform the
operating system interfacing(communication and coordination
with OS)
 Intermediate layers to utility services and application software
functions.

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