View TRAK:Architecture Description

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Version & Date

5th September 2015

Configuration History

See change record for the TRAK metamodel at https://trakmetamodel.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/trakmetamodel/trunk/?view=log

Definition

One of the elements within the the TRAK metamodel and part of the Management Perspective.

IEE1471/ ISO/IEC 42010: An architectural description is a model of the architecture; its purpose is to answer all identified stakeholders questions about all identified architecture-related concerns for the system of interest;

The collection of architecture products that describes a system of interest.

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Tests For

Tests Against

Attributes

  • approval authority
  • architect
  • assumptions
  • constraints
  • decisions
  • purpose
  • recommendations
  • summary of findings
  • tools used
  • views

Inherited attributes:

+  from Architecture Description Element

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Implementation of TRAK Attribute Names and Values

The implementation of TRAK attributes in a tool is controlled by ‘TRAK. Implementation. Architecture Description Elements’ with respect to the case, spelling of attributes and format of values. See References section below.

Relationships

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Architecture Description participates in the following relationships:

Inherited relationships:

+ from Document

  • Document has part Architecture Description
  • Architecture Description issued by Organisation
  • Document traces to Architecture Description
  • Architecture Description has part Document

+ from Architecture Description Element:

  • Claim about Architecture Description
  • Concern about Architecture Description
  • Contract governs Architecture Description
  • Requirement governs Architecture Description
  • Standard governs Architecture Description
  • Architecture Description satisfies Contract
  • Architecture Description satisfies Requirement
  • Architecture Description satisfies Standard
  • Architecture Description traces to Argument
  • Architecture Description traces to Document
  • Architecture Description traces to Requirement

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Configuration History

See change record for the TRAK metamodel at https://trakmetamodel.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/trakmetamodel/trunk/?view=log

Master Architecture View

Any Architecture Description used within an architecture description(!!) of the system-of-interest must appear on a MV-02 Architecture Description Design Record View for the architecture description.

The MV-02 is the Master Architecture View for Architecture Description.

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Comments

The purists will not like it (self-references / infinite recursion) but it provides a useful means for describing the scope/results for an architectural task using the MV-02 Architecture Design Record.

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Other Frameworks

References


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