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Relating System Quality and Software Architecture
by Ivan Mistrik, Rami Bahsoon, Peter Eeles, Roshanak Roshandel, Michael Stal
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
420 pages
15h 25m
English
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Preface
Software architecture is the earliest design artifact that realizes the requirements of the software system. It is the manifestation of the earliest design decisions, which comprise the architectural structure (i.e., components and interfaces), the architectural topology (i.e., the architectural style), the architectural infrastructure (e.g., the middleware), the relationship among them, and their relation to other software artifacts (e.g., detailed design and implementation) and the environment. As an earliest design artifact, a software architecture realizes the qualities of the software system such as security, reliability, availability, scalability, and real-time ...