Artifact: Implementation Model

Implementation Model	The implementation model is a collection of components, and the implementation subsystems that contain them. Components include both deliverable components, such as executables, and components from which the deliverables are produced, such as source code files.
UML representation:	Model, stereotyped as «implementation model».
Role:	Software Architect
Reports:	As part of the Artifact: Software Architecture Document
More information:	Guidelines:Implementation Model Guidelines:Component Diagram Guidelines:Import Dependency in Implementation Checkpoints:Implementation Model
Purpose Properties Timing Responsibility Tailoring

Input to Activities:

Identify Targets of Test

Identify Test Ideas

Set Up Configuration Management (CM) Environment

Plan System Integration

Describe Distribution

Define Testability Elements

Structure the Implementation Model

Output from Activities:

Structure the Implementation Model

Purpose

The implementation model is a composite, comprehensive artifact which encompasses all artifacts needed to build and manage the system in the run-time environment.

Properties

Property Name	Brief Description	UML Representation
Introduction	A textual description that serves as a brief introduction to the model	Tagged value, of type "short text"
Implementation Subsystems	The subsystems in the model, representing a hierarchy	Owned via the meta-association "represents", or recursively via the meta-aggregation "owns"
Components	The components in the model, owned by the subsystems	Owned recursively via the meta-aggregation "owns"
Relationships	The relationships in the model, owned by the subsystems	- " -
Diagrams	The diagrams in the model, owned by the subsystems	- " -
Implementation View	The implementation view of the model, which is an architectural view showing the subsystems and layers	Elements and diagrams in the view are owned recursively via the meta-aggregation "owns"

Timing

The Implementation Model structure is established in the Elaboration Phase, and is refined as needed in the Construction Phase.

Responsibility

A software architect is responsible for the integrity of the implementation model, and ensures that:

Note that the software architect is not responsible for the implementation subsystems and components, instead, these are under the corresponding implementer's responsibilities.

Tailoring

You have to decide how to map the classes and packages in design model to components and subsystems in the implementation model.