Transforming Platform-Independent to Platform-Specific Component and Connector Software Architecture Models

Abstract—Combining component & connector architecture de-scription languages with component behavior modeling languages enables modeling great parts of software architectures platform-independently. Nontrivial systems typically contain components with programming language behavior descriptions to interface with APIs. These components tie the complete software architec-ture to a specific platform and thus hamper reuse. Previous work on software architecture reuse with multiple platforms either requires platform-specific handcrafting or the effort of explicit platform models. We present an automated approach to trans-form platform-independent, logical software architectures into architectures with platform-specific components. This approach introduces abstract components to the platform-independent ar-chitecture and refines these with components specific to the target platform prior to code generation. Consequently, a single logical software architecture model can be reused with multiple target platforms, which increases architecture maturity and reduces the maintenance effort of multiple similar software architectures. I