Comparación de métodos para la arquitectura del software: Un marco de referencia para un método arquitectónico unificado

due to the growing interest in the current development of the architectural vision of software, a great number of architectural design and evaluation methods have been proposed. they are generally based on equivalent, complementary or alternative concepts. a comparative study of such methods allows us to determine procedures and activities that satisfy the process of generating architecture in terms of the initial set of requirements. in this paper, we present a comparative framework which is applied to architectural design methods as well as architectural evaluation methods. we obtained a set of desirable characteristics in an architectural design method. based on those characteristics, a first draft of a framework for a unified method that contemplates the whole design process is presented