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Software architecture

Software architecture is the set of structures needed to reason about a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. Each structure comprises software elements, relations among them, and properties of both elements and relations.

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Software architecture

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Edges121
Triples221
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.016393
Components1

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related to Further reading · 75
Software architecture → Accompanying, Addison-Wesley Professional, An, An Engineering Approach, Architect, Architectural Blueprints, Architecture, Archived, Bass, Bell, Berlin, Beyond, Bibcode, Cesare, Clements, Design, Documenting Software Architectures, Dulay, EDOC, EDOC'06
related to External links · 24
Software architecture → Architecture, Architecture Real Life Case, Archived, Carnegie Mellon University, CMU, Explanation, Good Architecture Goes BadThe, IASA, IASA Global, IBM DeveloperworksCollection, IFIP Working Group, International Association, IT Architects, Roy Fielding's REST, SDLC, SEI, Software Architects, Software ArchitectureSoftwareArchitectures, Software Engineering Institute, SoftwareArchitecturePortal
related to Architecture supporting activities · 16
Software architecture → As, Beyond, Design, Documentation, Documenting Software Architectures, Examples, For, It, Knowledge, Kruchten's, Software, System, These, They, This, Views
related to history · 9
Software architecture → Although, David Parnas, During, Earlier, Early, Edsger Dijkstra, Software, The, These
related to Patterns and styles · 9
Software architecture → Architecture, Circuit Breaker, Event-Driven Architecture, Examples, Layered Architecture, Microservices, Software, These, While
related to Motivation · 8
Software architecture → Architecture, ATAM, Communicating, Getting, It, Software, The, This
related to Software architecture erosion · 8
Software architecture → Due, Mozilla, Mozilla Web, Netscape, Perry, Software, The, Wolf
related to Design · 7
Software architecture → According, Architecture, For, In, Intension/Locality Hypothesis, Locality Criterion, There
related to Requirements engineering · 6
Software architecture → Approaches, Both, In, Requirements, There, Twin Peaks
related to Scope · 6
Software architecture → Following, Macroscopic, Opinions, That, The, This

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software architecture design system architectural requirements decisions components stakeholders engineering documentation concerns analysis include systems management activities erosion development architects

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Software architectureis aset of structures needed to reason about a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems0.90text
Software architectureis ameans to manage risk and costs in complex IT projects0.90text
business managersinstance ofsoftware systems have to cater to a variety of stakeholders0.80text
ownersinstance ofsoftware systems have to cater to a variety of stakeholders0.80text
usersinstance ofsoftware systems have to cater to a variety of stakeholders0.80text
and operatorsinstance ofsoftware systems have to cater to a variety of stakeholders0.80text
fault-toleranceinstance ofbut the current insight is that the architecture of a software system is more closely related to its quality attributes0.80text
backward compatibilityinstance ofbut the current insight is that the architecture of a software system is more closely related to its quality attributes0.80text
extensibilityinstance ofbut the current insight is that the architecture of a software system is more closely related to its quality attributes0.80text
reliabilityinstance ofbut the current insight is that the architecture of a software system is more closely related to its quality attributes0.80text
maintainabilityinstance ofbut the current insight is that the architecture of a software system is more closely related to its quality attributes0.80text
availabilityinstance ofbut the current insight is that the architecture of a software system is more closely related to its quality attributes0.80text

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