October 2010
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
16h 15m
English

In this chapter, we look at these aspects of interface documentation:
• Standard organization
• Stakeholders
• Conveying syntactic information
• Conveying semantic information
• Examples of interface documentation
So far we have emphasized documenting architecture elements and their relations using various kinds of views. More implicitly than explicitly, we have stated that of course all those elements have interfaces through which they can interact with each other. Interfaces are supremely architectural, for without them one cannot perform analyses or system building—both activities we want to ...