How to Perform the Architecture Compliance Check (ACC)?

The main goal of the Architecture Compliance Check (ACC) is to check whether the implementation is consistent with the architecture as intended: only then do the architectural solutions provide any value. Nevertheless, implementation often drifts away from the intended architecture and in particular from the one that was documented. We will show typical architectural solutions that are well suited to being checked for compliance. Compliance checking has to deal with large amounts of code and thus benefits from automation with tools. Not all violations of architecture concepts have the same weight: we provide guidance for the interpretation of compliance checking results.