Appendix B. Viewpoint Catalog
This appendix contains a summary of the viewpoints used in this book, which we introduced in Chapter 4, “Documenting a Software Architecture.” In that chapter, we discussed the concepts of basic and cross-cutting viewpoints.
[An architectural viewpoint represents] a specification of the conventions for constructing and using a view. A pattern or template from which to develop individual views by establishing the purposes and audience for a view and the techniques for its creation and analysis. (IEEE 1471 2000)
The various viewpoints are shown in Figure B.1, a figure reproduced from Chapter 4.
Figure B.1. The Architecture Description Framework
This chapter uses a template to describe each of the viewpoints, ...
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