Model-based Systems Architecting

Conclusion

C.1. The first journey in systems architecting

This book intends to offer to the reader the first journey through systems architecting and we hope that it was appreciated. We thus explored the following topics as provided in Table C.1.

Table C.1. Systems architecting topics covered within this book

Chapters	Topics covered
Introduction and 1	Systems Fundamentals
2	Systems Architecting Motivations
3	CESAM Framework Overview
4	Environment Architecture
5	Operational Architecture
6	Functional Architecture
7	Constructional Architecture
8	Dysfunctional Analysis1
9	Trade-off Techniques

However, we shall notice that our book does not, of course, cover the complete domain of systems architecting. We only focused on the fundamentals that every systems architect – even junior – shall know. Thus, we put an important stress on system modeling, since we just cannot do any systems architecting activity in practice without models. Models do indeed form the language of systems architecting: they can be used to analyze a problem, to describe a system, to elaborate a common vision, to communicate on a solution… The internal coherence of a system model – that leads to permanent cross-checking between the various diagrams that we introduced – is also a powerful tool for the systems architect in order to be confident in the robustness of a system architecture.

C.2. The other key systems architecting topics

We did not discuss in this book that was just intended ...