August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
11h 21m
English
book
Pattern-Oriented Analysis and Design: Composing Patterns to Design Software Systems
by Sherif M. Yacoub, Hany H. Ammar
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Glossary
Many terms in software engineering are overloaded with a number of meanings. For instance, a software architecture has different meanings to different people. Architecture can mean the high-level view of a system in terms of components and connectors. It can also mean the rules governing how the system should be built. This appendix describes the terms as we have used them in this book.
- Analysis
The process of identifying important concepts such as classes in object-oriented analysis or patterns in pattern-oriented analysis. Analysis is a separation of a whole into its components: an examination of a complex whole, its elements, and their relations.
- Architecture
A description of a system that is defined by (1) structure aspects, which define ...