Software Architect's Handbook

Summary

Documenting a software architecture is an important step in delivering an architecture. The documentation communicates the architecture to others, assists the development team, educates team members, provides input for architecture reviews, and allows the reuse of architectural knowledge.

Architecture views, which are representations of an architecture, allow a software architect to communicate their architecture in a manageable and understandable way. There is a cost associated with creating and maintaining views though, so while we never want the documentation to be insufficient, we do not want to spend time working on views that are not needed. In this chapter, you were provided with an overview of the UML, one of the more widely ...