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Specification

Business concept model and use case model are input from the requirements to this workflow. Additionally, technical constraints, which might have been revealed during provisioning, and QoS metrics from already performed QoS predictions can be input to the specification workflow after intial iterations of the process model. During specification, the component-based software architecture is designed. Components are identified, specified, and their interaction is defined. The software architect usually interacts with component developers during this workflow. More detail about this workflow is provided in Section 2.1.4. The output artifacts of this workflow are complete component specifications (in PCM also extra-functional specifications) and the component architecture (called assembly model in the PCM).



Snowball 2007-03-16