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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
592 pages
16h 15m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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The cover shows a bird’s wing, a motif chosen because it has much in common with software architecture. Rather than appeal to the overused analogy of house architectures, we find physiological systems to be a richer metaphor for software and system architectures. Among such systems, a bird’s wing is one of the most compelling examples.

How would you “document” a bird’s wing for someone who did not know what it was? A bird’s wing, like a software system, can be shown by emphasizing any of a number of structures—nerves, feathers, bones, blood vessels, muscles; each structure must be compatible with the others and must work toward fulfilling a common purpose. Feathers are elements that, at a glance, appear to be replicated countless ...

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