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Righting Software
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Righting Software

by Juval Lowy
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
12h 41m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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2. Decomposition

Software architecture is the high-level design and structure of the software system. While designing the system is quick and inexpensive compared with building the system, it is critical to get the architecture right. Once the system is built, if the architecture is defective, wrong, or just inadequate for your needs, it is extremely expensive to maintain or extend the system.

The essence of the architecture of any system is the breakdown of the concept of the system as a whole into its comprising components, be it a car, a house, a laptop, or a software system. A good architecture also prescribes how these components interact at run-time. The act of identifying the constituent components of a system is called system decomposition ...

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