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
Glossary
Actors the other elements, users, or systems with which an element interacts.
Allocation style a kind of style that describes the mapping of software units to elements of an environment in which the software is developed or executes.
Architectural (architecture) pattern “an architectural pattern expresses a fundamental structural organization schema for software systems. It provides a set of predefined subsystems, specifies their responsibilities, and includes rules and guidelines for organizing the relationships between them” (Buschmann et al. 1996, page 12).
Architecture cartoon the graphical portion of a view’s primary presentation, without supporting documentation.
Architecture description language (ADL) a language for representing ...
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