Initial Study And Application Of Theatre Pattern In Software Architecture

It is hard for current software engineering with the increasing crisis of software production, characterized by unclear users' requirement, lack of proper theory guide, larger scale of software etc. For large scale and complicated software system, the design of whole system structure and standard specification are much more important than the choice of algorithm and data structure. From this context, people become to realize the importance of software architecture, and believe that the systematical and deeply study of software architecture will be the most hopeful way to improve efficiency of software production and to deal with software maintenance.Software architecture is developed from abstracted design, which satisfies the need of developing larger scale and more complicated software based on better understanding of software system. A good developer usually makes use of some architectural pattern as the design strategy of software, and presents it clearly and standard to realize the repeated using of the pattern.The paper brings forward a creative pattern for software architecture based on observation and study of basic elements and operation pattern of the theater. By integrated application of abstracted software components such as script, stage, actor etc., we tried to establish a software architecture which can adapt to different platforms and provide quick approaching for software development by configuration maintenance, realizing the different combinations of functions to reach users' requirement.On the basis of Theater Pattern, we tried to instantiate its architecture, apply it in practice and perform related testing.In the finality, the problems requiring further studies are discussed.