Software Systems Architecture: Working with Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives

15 Introduction to the Viewpoint Catalog

Part III is a catalog of our six core viewpoints: Functional, Information, Concurrency, Development, Deployment, and Operational. As we said in Part I, while this taxonomy is not unique, we believe it does a good job of partitioning the AD into a manageable number of sections, while ensuring a widespread coverage of concerns.

For convenience, in Table 15–1 we reiterate the viewpoint taxonomy we presented originally in Part I.

Figure 15–1 shows the relationships between views created using these viewpoints.

For each viewpoint, we present the following details:

The most important concerns addressed by the ...