作为控制软件复杂性、提高软件系统质量、支持软件开发和复用的重要手段之一,软件体系结构自提出以来,日益受到软件研究者和实践者的关注,并发展成为软件工程的一个重要的研究领域.如今,软件体系结构的研究也开始超出传统的对软件设计阶段的支持,逐步扩展到整个软件生命周期.基于软件体系结构近十年来的研究进展,综述了在软件生命周期的不同阶段软件体系结构的研究与应用,并探讨了软件体系结构领域的发展与研究方向.
As an important means to control the complexity of software systems, to improve software quality and to support software development and software reuse, software architecture has become a mainstream research field in the software engineering community. Now. software architecture research not only focuses on the design phase, but also covers every phase of software lifecycle. This paper surveys the update-to-date research and practice of software architecture from a software lifecycle's perspective, and discusses the potential research directions of software architecture.