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Designing Software Architectures: A Practical Approach, 2nd Edition
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Designing Software Architectures: A Practical Approach, 2nd Edition

by Humberto Cervantes, Rick Kazman
June 2024
Intermediate to advanced
458 pages
12h 36m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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4

The Architecture Design Process

In this chapter, we provide a detailed discussion of ADD, the design method that is at the heart of this book. We begin with an overview of the method and of each of its steps. This overview is followed by more detailed discussions of different aspects that need to be considered when performing these steps. We also discuss the identification and selection of design concepts, the production of structures from these design concepts, the definition of interfaces, the production of preliminary documentation, and, finally, a technique to track design progress.

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Architectural design is the foundation for any complex software system. Unfortunately, it is most often done in an ad hoc way, if at ...

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