Dicto: A Unified DSL for Testing Architectural Rules

Caracciolo, Andrea; Lungu, Mircea; Nierstrasz, Oscar (2014). Dicto: A Unified DSL for Testing Architectural Rules. In: Proceedings of the 2014 European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops. ECSAW '14 (pp. 1-4). New York, NY, USA: ACM 10.1145/2642803.2642824

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Software architecture consists of a set of design choices that can be partially expressed in form of rules that the implementation must conform to. Architectural rules are intended to ensure properties that fulfill fundamental non-functional requirements. Verifying architectural rules is often a non- trivial activity: available tools are often not very usable and support only a narrow subset of the rules that are commonly specified by practitioners. In this paper we present a new highly-readable declarative language for specifying architectural rules. With our approach, users can specify a wide variety of rules using a single uniform notation. Rules can get tested by third-party tools by conforming to pre-defined specification templates. Practitioners can take advantage of the capabilities of a growing number of testing tools without dealing with them directly.

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