Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, 2nd edition
Published by Addison-Wesley Professional (October 5, 2010) © 2011
- Paul Clements
- Felix Bachmann
- Len Bass
- David Garlan
- James Ivers Software Engineering Institute
- Reed Little
- Paulo Merson
- Robert Nord Software Engineering Institute
- Judith Stafford
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Documenting Software Architectures provides the most complete and current guidance, independent of language or notation, on how to capture an architecture in a commonly understandable form. Drawing on their extensive experience, the authors first help you decide what information to document, and then, with guidelines and examples (in various notations, including UML), show you how to express an architecture so that others can successfully build, use, and maintain a system from it. The book features rules for sound documentation, the goals and strategies of documentation, architectural views and styles, documentation for software interfaces and software behaviour, and templates for capturing and organising information to generate a coherent package.
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- Prologue: Software Architectures and Documentation
- Part I: A Collection of Software Architecture Styles Â
- Chapter 1: Module Views Â
- Chapter 2: A Tour of Some Module Styles
- Chapter 3: Component-and-Connector Views
- Chapter 4: A Tour of Some Component-and-Connector Styles
- Chapter 5: Allocation Views and a Tour of Some Allocation Styles Â
- Part II: Beyond Structure: Completing the Documentation
- Chapter 6: Beyond the Basics
- Chapter 7: Documenting Software Interfaces
- Chapter 8: Documenting Behavior
- Part III: Building the Architecture Documentation
- Chapter 9: Choosing the Views
- Chapter 10: Building the Documentation Package
- Chapter 11: Reviewing an Architecture Document
- Epilogue: Using Views and Beyond with Other Approaches
- Appendix A: UML—Unified Modeling Language
- Appendix B: SysML—Systems Modeling Language
- Appendix C: AADL—The SAE Architecture Analysis and Design Language
Felix Bachmann is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the SEI, working in the Architecture Centric Engineering Initiative. He is coauthor of the Attribute-Driven Design Method, a contributor to and instructor for the ATAM Evaluator Training course, and a contributor to the book Software Architecture in Practice, Second Edition. Before joining the SEI, he was a software engineer at Robert Bosch GmbH in corporate research, where he worked with software development departments to address the issues of software engineering in small and large embedded systems.
Len Bass is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the SEI. He has coauthored two award-winning books in software architecture as well as several other books and numerous papers in a wide variety of areas of computer science and software engineering. He has been a keynote speaker or a distinguished lecturer on six continents. He is currently working on applying the concepts of ultra-large-scale systems to the smart grid. He has been involved in the development of numerous different production or research software systems, ranging from operating systems to database management systems to automotive systems. He is a member of the IFIP Working Group on Software Architecture (WG2.10).
David Garlan is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of Software Engineering Professional Programs in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He received his Ph.D. from CMU in 1987 and worked as a software architect in industry between 1987 and 1990. His interests include software architecture, self-adaptive systems, formal methods, and cyber-physical systems. He is considered to be one of the founders of the field of software architecture and, in particular, formal representation and analysis of architectural designs. In 2005 he received a Stevens Award Citation for fundamental contributions to the development and understanding of software architecture as a discipline in software engineering.
James Ivers is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the SEI, where he works in the areas of software architecture and program analysis. He received a Master of Software Engineering from CMU in 1996 and has worked for and with a variety of development organizations, from start-up to multinational corporations. He has written numerous papers, contributed to the development of an international standard for distributed simulations, and has recently been working in a public-private c
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