Knowledge Maps - Fundamentally Modular Approach to Software Architecture, Design, Development and Deployment

摘要

Pattern languages form the strong groundwork for any discipline understanding. Its uses have spilled over to the field of software engineering as well, to precisely describe past experiences and better understand software architectures' conceptualization and realization, along with, how their building blocks are insightfully woven seamlessly to satisfy a determined purpose resolution. Current representations of pattern languages strives hard in providing sufficient means or guidelines to build software architecture out of patterns; bringing as consequent problems such as poor traceability, lack of stability, poor adaptability, out of context understanding realization, are more prominent within the pattern language implementation. To overcome these problems in traditional pattern languages, we have provided both a set of quality factors to evaluate pattern language definition, accuracy, and application; and also a newly enhanced Pattern Language representation, driven by Software Stability Concepts, called Knowledge Map, which provides many significant benefits to the software architecture's development practices, including a highly modular approach to requirement analysis and architecting the software, as well as following a highly concurrent and modularized approach for its development. The KM also enables selective and modular deployment specific to the application scenario that the software is to operate in, at any given point in time, instead of having to run it as a heavy weight solution, requiring each and every feature to run, when only a fraction of the functionalities are to be used.