August 2018
Beginner
594 pages
22h 33m
English
Content preview from Software Architect's Handbook
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What makes up a software architecture?
In the book, Software Architecture in Practice, 2nd Edition, a definition of software architecture is given as:
"The software architecture of a program or computing system is the structure or structures of the system, which comprise software elements, the externally visible properties of those elements, and the relationships among them."
A software system contains structures, and this definition notes that a software system is made up of one or more of them. It is the combination of these that forms the overall software architecture. A large software project may have multiple teams working on it, each responsible for a particular structure.