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Documenting software architectures outline introduction uses of architectural documentation views choosing the relevant views documenting a view documentation across views unified modeling language summary introduction the software architecture plays a central role in system development and the organization that produces it. If you go to the trouble of creating a strong architecture. Here is a starting point, and there are others including arc42. Software architecture has become a widely accepted conceptual basis for the development of nontrivial software in all application areas and by organizations of all sizes. Views and beyond, second edition addisonwesley, 2011, as well as several other books and numerous papers in computer science and software engineering on a wide range of topics. A practical method for documenting software architectures. The handbook, tentatively entitled software architecture documentation in practice, will be published in mid to late2000 by addison wesley longman as a book in the software engineering institute sei series on software engineering. Documenting software architecture, part 2, develop the system context from the developerworks archives.
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