7.2 Architectural Design
7.2.1 What Is Software Architecture?
The software architecture of a system specifies its basic structure. In many ways, it is design created at a high level of abstraction. Bass, Clements, and Kazman (2012) define software architecture as follows:
The software architecture of a program or computing system is the structure or structures of the system, which comprises software elements, the externally visible properties of those elements, and the relationships among them.
There are several important points to note about the architecture of a system:
Every system ...
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