The 4+1 View Model of architecture

Author

Kruchten, Philippe B.

Author_Institution

Rational Software Corp., Richmond, BC, Canada

Volume

12

Issue

6

fYear

1995

fDate

11/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

42

Lastpage

50

Abstract

The 4+1 View Model organizes a description of a software architecture using five concurrent views, each of which addresses a specific set of concerns. Architects capture their design decisions in four views and use the fifth view to illustrate and validate them. The logical view describes the design´s object model when an object-oriented design method is used. To design an application that is very data driven, you can use an alternative approach to develop some other form of logical view, such as an entity-relationship diagram. The process view describes the design´s concurrency and synchronization aspects. The physical view describes the mapping of the software onto the hardware and reflects its distributed aspect. The development view describes the software´s static organization in its development environment

Keywords

distributed processing; entity-relationship modelling; object-oriented methods; software engineering; 4+1 View Model; concurrency; data-driven application design; design decisions; design object model; development environment; development view; distributed aspect; entity-relationship diagram; hardware; object-oriented design method; physical view; software architecture; software mapping; software static organization; synchronization; validation; Application software; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Data engineering; Design methodology; Hardware; Physics computing; Scalability; Software architecture; Software design;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/52.469759

Filename

469759