Henry Muccini is a researcher at the University of L'Aquila in Italy who focuses on software testing, verification and validation as well as model-driven engineering. His research interests include architecture-driven model-based testing, model checking, software architecture description, and architecting wireless sensor networks and mobile applications. He has given presentations on software architecture definitions, case studies of architectural design like Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, examples of network architectures like Telecom Italia's, and trends in software architecture research areas.

1. Università degli Studi dell’Aquila
Henry Muccini
DISIM, University of L’Aquila
henry.muccini@univaq.it, @muccinihenry, www.henrymuccini.com
@University of SPLIT, Croatia – May 2014

2. Researcher at the University of L’Aquila,
Italy
Research
 Software Testing, Verification and Validation
 Model Driven Engineering
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3. Research interests
on developing methods and tools for the
analysis and design of software architectures
→Architecture-driven Model-based Testing, Model-
checking, and V&V
→Models Interoperability in Software Architecture
Descriptions
→Group Decision Making in Software Architecture
→Multi-view Software Architecture Description
→Architecting Wireless Sensor Network
→Engineering Mobile Applications
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4. SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE: BRIEF INTRODUCTION
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5. Software Engineering
Engineered Software SystemSoftware System

6. Software Architecture definitions
Perry and Wolf, ’92 (aspects):
→“Architecture is concerned with the selection of architectural elements,
their interactions, and the constraints on those elements and their
interactions necessary to provide a framework in which to satisfy the
requirements and serve as a basis for the design.”
→Elements are divided into processing elements, data elements and
connection elements
Garlan and Shaw, ’93 (elements):
→ Architecture for a specific system may be captured as “a collection of
computational components - or simply components - together with a
description of the interactions between these components - the connectors
–”

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Let us reason about the
Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia

8. STM-4/16
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STM-1/4
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SXC
4/1
Urban Level
SXA
STM-1/4
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STM-4/16
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Regional level
STM-1/4
ADM
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SXA
TELECOM ITALIA NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
WDM
STM-4/16
ADM
ADM
SXA
WL
STM-16 Ring
National Level
ADM
ADM
ADM
ADM
ADM
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ADM
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WL
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STM-16 Ring

9. Java
Development
Tools
Plugin
Development
Environment
JFace
SWT
Workbench
Workspace
Runtime
User Interface
Core

10. SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE: TRENDS
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11. Trend #1: research trends
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Architecture
Description
Languages
Design
Decisions/
Architectural
Knowledge
Multi-view
descriptions

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Component-based
Architectures
Service-Oriented
Architectures
Product Line
Architectures
Systems of
Systems
Architectures

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Software
Architecture
System
Architecture
Cyber Physical
Systems
Architecture

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Informal
Formal
Architecture
Description
Languages
UML &
UML Profiles
Informal but
Formal

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