Software Architecture
An adequate architecture significantly reduces efforts for changing and extending your system. Moreover, it enables reuse and scalability, helps avoid unexpected side-effects and simplifies tests. To name just a few benefits.
Making your intended architecture explicit is fundamental for reasoning about and discussing the evolution of your system. It also enables you to ensure the actual architecture implemented in your code complies to your intended architecture.
Model Your Architecture
Teamscales' lightweight architecture editor enables you to quickly lay out and name the components of your intended architecture, next to each another or in a hierarchy.
Add dependency policies between your components, to specify whether respective dependencies are allowed, tolerated or denied. All other dependencies are implicitly denied.
Simply drag your actual code files or folders to architecture components, to quickly create a mapping – or use the full power of regular expressions to precisely specify what maps where.
Ensure Conformity
As soon as you map your code to your intended architecture, Teamscale starts matching the actual dependencies to your dependency policies – and uncovers any violations.
Enable conformance analysis, to generate analysis findings for any violation and ensure to clean them up just like any other incremental-analysis finding in Teamscale.
Put it to Use
Model the intended architecture you have in mind or simply start with the actual architecture of your system. Either way, making the architecture explicit is a good starting point for discussions and decisions about where you are and where you want to go.
Edit your architecture to reflect your decisions. Teamscale tracks architecture changes alongside your code changes, so your architecture and your code stay in sync.
Tend to Your Architecture
Having an explicit architecture specification that you know is actually in sync with your code, brings your entire team onto the same page and, thereby, enables reasoning and discussion about the evolution of your system.
Teamscale automatically checks your code against your intended architecture and reports any violations, e.g., by somebody new on the team, who’s still getting up to speed.
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I have used Architecture modeling and Conformance Analysis for 10+ years, in our software audits, as well as working with customers who apply it in their daily work.
If you would like to learn more about architecture conformance analysis, I’m happy to chat.
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