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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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8. Documenting Behavior

With George Fairbanks

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Documenting behavioral aspects of an architecture provides many benefits both during development of the architecture and during system maintenance. This information can be used to gain understanding of a system, and it can also help stakeholders reason about how a system built to the architecture will be able to meet many of its quality-related goals. For example, behavior documentation can identify potential deadlocks and bottlenecks. Such documentation clarifies to developers the steps and states involved in the operations.

Documenting an architecture requires behavior documentation that complements ...

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