Stylebase for Eclipse. An Opensource Tool to Support the Modeling of Quality-Driven Software Architecture

摘要

Open source software has gained a lot of well-deserved attention during the last few years. Eclipse is one of the most successful open source communities providing an open development environment and an application lifecycle platform. Eclipse is a vendorneutral platform for integrating tools and services. My thesis work is a case study on contributing to Eclipse. The contribution is a software architecture tool called 'Stylebase for Eclipse' which is implemented as an extension a.k.a. plug-in to Eclipse. Quality-driven architecture design is an approach to software architecture design which emphasizes the importance of qualities. Qualities are non-functional characteristics of a software system such as security or maintainability. Stylebase is a knowledge base of software patterns and architectural styles. It stores information that helps a software architect in selecting patterns that best support the desired quality goals. Stylebase for Eclipse is a tool for browsing and maintaining the stylebase. The purpose of the tool is to improve the quality of design and increase information sharing and re-use of architectural models in development teams.