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Software architecture is concerned with the study of a software system’s high-level structures and involves the design and production of such structures. According to experts n the field, software teams struggle to communicate software architecture. To communicate the software architecture of a software system, developers use diagrams that tends to be a confused mess of boxes and features, unstable notation, ununiform naming, unlabeled relationships, generic terminology, missing technology decisions, mixed abstractions, etc. This paper proposes a new diagrammatic representation, called a thinging machine (TM), as a methodology in software architecture. We show that a TM can express situations that arise in practice and is therefore an alternative to tools currently in use. The general aim is to provide alternative representations that may be used to develop more refined tools in this field of study.
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Al-Fedaghi, S., Makdessi, M. (2019). Software Architecture as a Thinging Machine: A Case Study of Monthly Salary System. In: Silhavy, R., Silhavy, P., Prokopova, Z. (eds) Intelligent Systems Applications in Software Engineering. CoMeSySo 2019 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1046. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30329-7_8
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