August 2018
Beginner
594 pages
22h 33m
English
Content preview from Software Architect's Handbook
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Software architecture is an abstraction
Software architecture is an abstraction of a software system. The structures of a software system consist of its elements. Software architecture concerns itself with defining and detailing the structures, their elements, and the relationships of those elements with each other.
Software architecture focuses on the public aspects of the elements, and how they interact with each other. For elements, this may take the form of their public interfaces. It does not deal with the private implementation details of the elements. While the behavior of the elements does not have to be exhaustively documented, care should be taken in understanding how elements have to be designed and written so that they can properly ...