Software Engineering, 10th Edition

6.3 Architectural patterns

The idea of patterns as a way of presenting, sharing, and reusing knowledge about software systems has been adopted in a number of areas of software engineering. The trigger for this was the publication of a book on object-oriented design patterns (Gamma et al. 1995). This prompted the development of other types of patterns, such as patterns for organizational design (Coplien and Harrison 2004), usability patterns (Usability Group 1998), patterns of cooperative interaction (Martin and Sommerville 2004), and configuration management patterns (Berczuk and Appleton 2002).

Architectural patterns were proposed in the 1990s under the name “architectural styles” (Shaw and Garlan 1996). A very detailed five-volume series ...