April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
16h 53m
English
Content preview from Software Architecture in Practice, Second Edition
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Chapter 9. Documenting Software Architectures
with Felix Bachmann, David Garlan, James Ivers, Reed Little, Robert Nord, and Judith Stafford
Note: Felix, James, Reed, and Robert are members of the SEI technical staff; David is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science; and Judith is an assistant professor at Tufts University's Department of Computer Science.
Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
—James Russell Lowell
As we have seen over and over, the software architecture for a system plays a central role in system development and in the organization that produces it. The architecture serves as the blueprint for both the system and the project developing it. ...