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Axivion Architecture Verification

Your Real Architecture
Is In The Code.
Extract and Verify It Automatically.

Extract the truth directly from your code, enforce architectural rules automatically, and automate compliance. Purpose-built for embedded C, C++, C#, CUDA and Rust systems in safety-critical industries.

For teams who need to ship safer faster without breaking what works.

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Architecture Verification is The Automated Enforcement of Your Blueprint

Software architecture verification automatically checks that your code follows its intended design. It reduces the effort of manual code reviews by automatically inspecting your source code.

It results in gaining:
– proof that your system matches its intended design
– detailed information about exactly where code and architecture diverge

Axivion Architecture Verification runs in your CI/CD pipeline. Every commit gets checked against your architectural model. Violations are blocked before they merge. Your software design specifications stay intact, even under deadline pressure.

For teams building safety-critical systems, automated architecture verification is the essential discipline for preventing the most costly form of technical debt: architectural debt.

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Is Your Architecture Helping or Hurting You?

Architectural drift quietly accumulates. Shortcuts compound. Software documentation decays. Over time, your codebase becomes harder to change, slower to ship, and riskier to maintain.

Gartner warns that 80% of all technical debt will be architectural by 2027. For most teams today, this already shows up as 40% of engineering time lost to unplanned rework, features delayed by hidden dependencies, breach risks from architectural vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps that surface at the worst moment.

Architectural Tech Debt is The Root Cause

Standard software quality tools check your code. Axivion checks your structure and enforces your coding standards in your sw architecture. That's the difference between managing symptoms and solving the problem.

CORE CAPABILITIES

Architecture Governance That Actually Works

Axivion provides the missing strategic layer for your software development, ensuring your software is not just written correctly, but built correctly. The architecture of software is your most important asset. Now you can finally manage it like one.

See Every Dependency in Minutes

Reverse-engineer your true architecture. Axivion extracts the real structure directly from code, even legacy systems. Hidden couplings, boundary violations, undocumented dependencies - all visible.

Onboard developers in days, not months.

Enforce Rules & Boundaries Automatically

Violations blocked in CI/CD before they merge. No more relying on hope that your development team follows guidelines under deadline pressure.

Reduce rework. Ship with speed and confidence.

Prove Compliance On Demand

Generate audit evidence continuously. Freedom from Interference verification, full traceability, ASIL D certification support - all automated.

The Tool Qualification Kit proves your architecture's compliance with industry standards. Audit prep drops from weeks to days.

Results from Architecture Governance

80%

Reduction in Audit Preparation Time
From weeks of scrambling to hours on demand

40%

Less Manual Rework
Stop the drain on engineering capacity
caused by manual review cycles

Why Teams Choose Axivion
Over Other Software Architecture Tools

Axivion is the only architecture analysis tool purpose-built for embedded, safety-critical systems. Enterprise tools miss your code. Manual processes can't scale. You get one certified toolchain that sees, enforces, and proves everything in your systems architecture.

With Axivion Architecture Verification

Extracted directly from code in minutes. Every dependency visible.

Productive in days. System structure visible on day one.

Violations blocked in CI/CD before they merge.

Freedom From Interference/Software Segregation verification, Automated evidence generation.

Automated evidence is generated with every build. Less error-prone manual reviews.

Full C, C++, C#, CUDA, Rust support. Built for safety-critical systems.

Restructure your code and architecture model with confidence.

Impact

Full architectural control

Onboarding: months → days

Drift stopped at source

80% faster

50% less rework

No blind spots

Safe modernization

Key Benefits of Axivion Architecture Verification

Ensures Architectural Consistency
Automatically verifies that the code conforms to the defined architecture of software and architectural patterns.

Prevents Architecture Debt
Detects deviations early and stops architectural violations from spreading across the codebase.

Cuts Manual Reviews
Eliminates error-prone and incomplete manual architecture reviews through exhaustive, automated verification.

Enables Reliable Impact Analysis
Architecture as a dependable baseline is used to understand how changes affect the system—both for daily development and large-scale modifications.

Reduces Refactoring Time and Cost
Accurately assesses the impact, effort, and risks of refactoring or addition of new features before changes are made.

Improves Development Speed
Fewer architectural regressions lead to faster, more predictable development cycles and time-to-market.

Reliable, Up-to-Date Documentation
Keeps architecture documentation aligned with the actual implementation, supporting confident technical and business decisions.

Accelerates Onboarding
Makes system structure understandable without reading the entire codebase, enabling faster and more effective onboarding of new team members.

Safety and Security Compliance
Ensures that safety- and security-relevant architectural constraints are implemented correctly, reducing risks in safety-critical systems.

Extends Software Lifecycle
Preserves a clean and coherent sw architecture that supports long-term, planned product evolution and maintainability.

KEY FEATURES & TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

Powerful Architecture Analysis – Verified and Standardized Effortlessly

Axivion offers users a unique way to control and standardize their software architecture with automated rule and guideline enforcement.

It surpasses standard quality verification tools. Here's the technical foundation that makes architecture governance possible for embedded, safety-critical systems.

Integrated Modeler

Always start with a model: either by creating one with the integrated modeler or by importing any existing machine-readable model of your architecture.

Interface to UML® Tools

To create the structural model of your software architecture, you can either set it up manually or import it from a UML model or from any other form of graph structure. Among the supported UML® tools are: IBM Rational Rhapsody, Sparx Enterprise Architect, PlantUML...

Architecture-as-Code

Choose a human readable format like PlantUML or Python for specifiying your architecture model easily.

AUTOSAR XML Import (ARXML)

Import of AUTOSAR XML (ARXML) data can complement architecture checks against a high-level software architecture, and enable detailed compliance checks. ARXML is even provided for custom validators.

Freedom from Interference

Modern systems often run safety functions with different ASIL or QM levels on the same hardware. To meet ISO 26262, this requires a proper software architecture, as compliance with it ensures Freedom from Interference and Software Segregation.

Architecture Reconstruction

Axivion helps rebuilding a missing or outdated software architecture by deriving hypotheses from existing artifacts and iteratively validating them against the implementation.

Continuous Integration CI/CD

Seamless Workflow Integration, not just a snapshot - Axivion integrates easily into your daily review process and automatically detects deviations to tackle them at an early stage.

Results Report

Stay on top of your project - Architecture debt can be corrected via targeted refactoring measures which you can directly monitor in the results report.

Capability Snapshot

Axivion Architecture Verification

Enterprise Tools

Limited

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Manual Process

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Slow, error prone

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Webinar: "Architecture Verfication with Axivion Suite"

Architecture Verification - Your Base of Success

You'll learn:

Why to do architecture verification?
What is required for architecture verification?
How does architecture verification work?

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Where Architecture Verification Makes The Difference - Resolve Your Biggest Development Pain Points

These are the problems we hear most from engineering teams.
You may face one, several, or variations of each. Here's how architecture verification addresses them.

Prove Safety Segregation in Minutes, Not Weeks

Problem to solve:
Ensuring Freedom from Interference (FFI) or Software Segregation is an architectural discipline. Systems running mixed safety levels (ASIL, SIL, QM) on shared hardware must prove that safety-critical components cannot be affected by non-critical code. Manual verification means weeks of dependency tracing. One missed path means audit failure.

How to solve it:
Define which components belong to which safety level. Axivion continuously verifies that no forbidden dependencies exist between them. Safety boundaries are automatically enforced on every commit.

How to Ensure Freedom From Interference

Safer Refactoring – Modernize Legacy Systems

Problem to solve:
You can't refactor what you can't see. A team of 5 engineers can spend from days to weeks per release on manual architecture reviews and still miss issues that cause rework or field failures. Legacy systems become "don't touch" zones because nobody understands what connects to what.

How to solve it:
Axivion reverse-engineers your codebase to map its actual structure from your code. See exactly what depends on what before you touch anything.

Every change is verified against your software documentation and design specifications, which are generated automatically. Violations flagged immediately, not after integration.

Read about Software Architecture Recovery

Combating Spaghetti-Code – The Infamous Software Anti-Pattern

Problem to solve:
Spaghetti code is one of the most widespread and costly software anti-patterns. It develops silently over time: logic spreads across classes and modules, dependencies become bidirectional, the control flow becomes hard to track and developers struggle to make even small changes. Progress slows, technical debt rises and bugs become more likely—especially when new team members join or the original developers have left the project.

How to solve it:
Architecture verification helps organizations regain control over their software systems' codebase. Teams define an architectural model, then Axivion automatically maps existing source code against it, making hidden issues visible so they can be fixed systematically rather than discovered by surprise.

How Structural Problems Become Visible

Premature Optimization – Desired Speed that Will Slow you Down

Problem to Solve:
Premature optimization happens when teams spend significant effort making code “fast” before they even know if performance is a real problem. Developers optimize for hypothetical future scenarios instead of current, proven requirements. This often introduces complex micro-optimizations, shortcuts and tight couplings that increase technical debt, create spaghetti-like structures and ultimately slow development down.

How Solve it:
Architecture verification helps avoid this trap by enforcing clear component boundaries and preventing forbidden dependencies, so “clever” but harmful optimizations are caught early. Combined with static code analysis, it keeps teams focused on delivering value first — and optimizing later, when real data justifies it.

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Frequently Asked Questions on Software Architecture Verification

Who should be using Axivion Architecture Verification?

Architecture Verification

Axivion Architecture Verification is ideal for teams developing software in C, C++, C#, or CUDA, especially for large or long-lived codebases. It supports developers, software engineering architects, QA, and compliance teams—particularly in safety- and security-critical industries—by ensuring architectural consistency, reliability, and standards compliance.

What is SW Architecture Verification?

Architecture Verification

Architecture verification checks whether your code matches its intended software architecture and sw architecture patterns. When architecture, design, architecture patterns and code stay in sync, teams can reliably assess the impact of new feature developments and refactoring decisions of existing code. Turn arch into the guide of understanding your system.

How do architecture verification tools differ from regular testing tools?

Architecture Verification

Regular testing tools execute the code to verify runtime behavior. Architecture verification tools are static: they analyze the code without running it to check whether architectural rules and constraints are followed.

What makes an architecture "verifiable" from the start?

Architecture Verification

A SW arch is verifiable when its rules and constraints are clearly defined, explicit, and enforceable in code. This allows automated static analysis instead of relying on documentation or manual reviews.

Which form of software documentation / architecture model is needed to use Axivion Architecture Verification?

Architecture Verification

Almost any form of documentation is verifiable with Axivion. It is a flexible tool, that supports a large number of different input formats, such as plain text files, XMI formats or QEA and even programmatically scripted architecture descriptions.

What are common pitfalls when implementing architecture verification?

Architecture Verification

The main pitfall is over-specifying. Too much granularity when setting up the architecture leads to micromanagement and diminishes the returns. Question whether all the detail is needed in the architecture description / software design specification. Start with a rough architecture model and add detail as your project matures/in the later development stages.

How should teams integrate architecture verification into their CI/CD pipeline?

Architecture Verification

Treat architecture rules like other quality gates: run static architecture checks automatically on every commit/PR and in the main pipeline, and fail the build when rules are violated so problems are caught early and don’t spread.

How does Axivion Architecture Verification scale with large codebases?

Architecture Verification

Axivion Architecture Verification scales well in terms of the size of the codebase. It allows automated checks to run quickly across large codebases and consistently enforce architectural rules without executing the system.

What measurable benefits do teams typically see after implementing architecture verification?

Architecture Verification

Teams typically see shorter refactoring cycles, reduced maintenance effort, and fewer architectural regressions, since violations are detected early and prevented from spreading. Over time, this leads to lower technical debt, more predictable development, and faster, safer implementation of new features.

What role does architecture verification play in security compliance?

Architecture Verification

Architecture verification enforces security-related design rules through static checks. Security constraints are consistently applied and automatically validated, supporting regulatory compliance activities.

What is the difference between a software requirements specification and a software design specification / software design document (SDD)?

Architecture Verification

A software requirements specification describes what the system must do, and the constraints it must meet. A software design specification (SDD) explains how those requirements are implemented through architecture, components, and design decisions. A software design specification (SDD) is similar to an architectural description, but at a higher level.

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A 360°View – From Architectural Control to Code Quality

Architectural integrity is only half the battle. Hidden defects at the code level can undermine even the cleanest sw architecture design.

The Axivion Suite protects both your sw architecture design and your implementation, combining powerful architecture analysis with deep, certified static code analysis.

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How We Ensure Axivion Architecture Verification Meets Your Needs

Together we will go beyond a standard demo. In our Proof of Value (PoV) Workshop we let you evaluate Axivion in your own environment, on your own code. It’s a no-commitment engagement designed to provide tangible results and a clear view of your potential ROI.

Over 1-3 days, our experts and your team will work directly in your environment to make sure our software architecture tool meets your expectations and delivers real-value.

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Success Stories for Axivion Architecture Verification from Various Industries

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Elektrobit

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“The Axivion Suite provides us with crucial support when implementing new features in EB street director and guaranteeing the quality of our software solutions in the long term.”

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Fresenius Medical Care

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“Thanks to the Axivion Suite, we have the maintainability of our software under control, thereby safeguarding our long-term capacity for innovation.”

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Jungheinrich

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"Axivion Suite impressed us with automated code and architecture checks, but its outstanding support, rollout, and training made it a complete success in our workflows."

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“Integration with Enterprise Architect was perfect: Finally models can be enforced without intensive visual inspection!“

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