Enduring Ideas in the Realm of Software
kevindooley Software architecture is often defined as the structure or structures of a system. There’s been a lot of attempts to define architecture from a software perspective and lots of debates over the years. Rather than start from scratch, I thought it would be more helpful to highlight some of the more useful definitions that …
Photo by Wolfgang Staudt What is systems architecture and why do we care? A systems architecture supports the highest layers of the enterprise architecture and it helps keep the enterprise architecture aligned to the business. In A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture (Coad Series), James McGovern, Scott W. Ambler, Michael E. Stevens, James Linn, Vikas …
How do you represent a software architecture? You can use a set of viewpoints including a conceptual architecture view, module view, execution view, and code view. This set of architectural viewpoints was originally proposed by Hofmeister, Nord, and Soni in their book Applied Software Architecture. In A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture (Coad Series), James …
What is the 4+1 view model of software architecture? It’s a way to show key viewpoints of an architecture. In A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture (Coad Series), James McGovern, Scott W. Ambler, Michael E. Stevens, James Linn, Vikas Sharan, and Elias K. Jo write about the 4+1 view model of software architecture. Key Take …
You can divide software architecture structures into 3 groups: 1) module structures, 2) component-and-connector structures, and 3) allocation structures. These 3 groups map to 3 broad types of decisions for architectural design. The 3 broad types of decisions are: 1) how to structure modules, 2) how to structure components and connectors, and 3) how does …
