January 2011
Beginner
400 pages
10h 44m
English
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
—Fred Brooks
A software architecture is an organizational model for a moderate or large software system. Such a model divides the software into graphical user interface (GUI) forms, classes, modules, and database tables. A software architecture provides strong guidance on how modules interact with each other, how a test suite can be designed, how refactoring strategies can be exercised, and how program bugs can be detected and removed.
This chapter focuses on four central ideas related to software architecture. First, we introduce the concepts of architectural patterns and how they help developers organize software systems. Second, we ...
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