Chapter 8
Foundation Architecture
It seems that every book that discusses software architecture in any way attempts to define software architecture. Some examples from other sources follow.
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 relations among them. [Software Architecture in Practice]
The fundamental organization of a system embodied in its components, their relationships to each other, and to the environment, and the principles guiding its design and evolution. [ISO 47010]
All architecture is design, but not all design is architecture. Architecture represents the significant design ...
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