Software Architecture in Practice: Software Architect Practice_c3The award-winning and highly influential Software Architecture in Practice, Third Edition, has been substantially revised to reflect the latest developments in the field. In a real-world setting, the book once again introduces the concepts and best practices of software architecture—how a software system is structured and how that system’s elements are meant to interact. Distinct from the details of implementation, algorithm, and data representation, an architecture holds the key to achieving system quality, is a reusable asset that can be applied to subsequent systems, and is crucial to a software organization’s business strategy.
The authors have structured this edition around the concept of architecture influence cycles. Each cycle shows how architecture influences, and is influenced by, a particular context in which architecture plays a critical role. Contexts include technical environment, the life cycle of a project, an organization’s business profile, and the architect’s professional practices. The authors also have greatly expanded their treatment of quality attributes, which remain central to their architecture philosophy—with an entire chapter devoted to each attribute—and broadened their treatment of architectural patterns.
If you design, develop, or manage large software systems (or plan to do so), you will find this book to be a valuable resource for getting up to speed on the state of the art.
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User Review - Alex_Szabo - LibraryThingThis author makes great examples of methods of depiction and articulation of architecture and systems. I particularly was drawn because it outlined the A7E aircraft which is what we flew in VA15. He did a very excellent job in outlining each of its major systems and their integrations. Read full review
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User Review - bobholt - LibraryThingA solid introduction to the discipline of software engineering. I have half a dozen more books in hand or wishlisted and a folder full of academic papers and standards to read thanks to the great ... Read full review
Contents
Part Two Quality Attributes | |
Availability | |
Interoperability | |
Modifiability | |
Architecture and Requirements | |
Designing an Architecture | |
Documenting Software Architectures | |
Architecture Implementation and Testing | |
Architecture Reconstruction | |
Architecture Evaluation | |
Management and Governance | |
Part Four Architecture and Business | |
Performance | |
Security | |
Testability | |
Usability | |
Other Quality Attributes | |
Architectural Tactics and Patterns | |
Quality Attribute Modeling and Analysis | |
Part Three Architecture in the Life Cycle | |
Architecture Competence | |
Organization | |
Architecture and Software Product Lines | |
Part Five The Brave New World | |
Architectures for the Edge | |
Epilogue | |