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Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, Second Edition
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Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, Second Edition

by Paul Clements, Felix Bachmann, Len Bass, David Garlan, James Ivers, Reed Little, Paulo Merson, Robert Nord, Judith Stafford
October 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
592 pages
16h 15m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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1. Module Views

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In this chapter, we look at these aspects of module views:

• Elements, relations, and properties

• Purpose

• Notation

• Relation to other views

1.1 Overview

In this chapter and the next, we look at ways to document the module structures of a system’s software. Such documentation enumerates the principal implementation units, or modules, of a system, together with the relations among these units. We refer to these descriptions as module views. As we will see, these views can be used for each of the purposes outlined in the prologue: education, communication among stakeholders, and the basis for construction and analysis.

The way ...

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