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Software Architecture and Design

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The activity of designing is pervasive in software development. A software system’s architecture is the set of principal design decisions made about the system. As such, architecture and design are central pillars of software engineering. This chapter provides a coherent set of definitions for architecture, highlights key techniques for designing, and illustrates their application in well-known, influential applications. The development of the central concepts is traced from early beginnings in both domain-specific and domain-independent contexts. Techniques for analysis of architectures are discussed, and particular emphasis is placed on the distinctive role that connectors play in complex systems. Cost-benefit trade-offs are examined, the importance of maintaining conceptual integrity is stressed, and future directions for the field are explored.

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Taylor, R.N. (2019). Software Architecture and Design. In: Cha, S., Taylor, R., Kang, K. (eds) Handbook of Software Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00262-6_3

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