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by Len Bass (Author), Paul Clements (Author), Rick Kazman (Author)
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The first edition of this book established itself as the leading book on this topic of growing importance. It was critically acclaimed (recipient of the Software Development Magazine Productivity Award) and widely embraced by customers. The second edition maintains the goals of the first edition: to define and explain software architecture, and to demonstrate, through real-world case studies, its importance for software system design. The added goals of the second edition are to bring the content up-to-date with significant developments in the understanding and practice of software architecture in the past five years. These developments include advances in architecture analysis, design, reconstruction, and documentation--advances in which the authors, through their work at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), have played a direct and prominent role.



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This award-winning book, substantially updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, 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.

Drawing on their own extensive experience, the authors cover the essential technical topics for designing, specifying, and validating a system. They also emphasize the importance of the business context in which large systems are designed. Their aim is to present software architecture in a real-world setting, reflecting both the opportunities and constraints that companies encounter. To that end, case studies that describe successful architectures illustrate key points of both technical and organizational discussions.

Topics new to this edition include:

  • Architecture design and analysis, including the Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM)
  • Capturing quality requirements and achieving them through quality scenarios and tactics
  • Using architecture reconstruction to recover undocumented architectures
  • Documenting architectures using the Unified Modeling Language (UML)
  • New case studies, including Web-based examples and a wireless Enterprise JavaBeans™ (EJB) system designed to support wearable computers
  • The financial aspects of architectures, including use of the Cost Benefit Analysis Method (CBAM) to make decisions

    If you design, develop, or manage the building of large software systems (or plan to do so), or if you are interested in acquiring such systems for your corporation or government agency, use Software Architecture in Practice, Second Edition, to get up to speed on the current state of software architecture.



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    2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
    4.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive and structured review of software architecture, 5 Dec 1998
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    What I liked: =>Coverage of architectural qualities was insightful, differentiating between runtime attributes and non-runtime attributes =>Thorough explanation of key points in analyzing software architectures using a structured method (SAAM) =>Concept of Architecture Business Cycle (ABC) was useful

    What was missing: =>Good examples from the business world

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    2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and informative reading, 30 Nov 1998
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    The book is well written and quite comprehensive on the subjects covered. It provides an extensive coverage of topics around software architecture and explains the relationship between software architecture, architectural styles, systems, etc. It also includes a substantial number of novel discussions on issues such as architectural qualities, architecture-based system development, and architecture-based reuse. It uses extended examples to illustrate the points being made.

    The only thing I didn't like was the lack of a more formal approach to presenting the subject matters.

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    4.0 out of 5 stars A must read if you are serious about software architecture., 4 May 1998
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    The articulation of the Architecture Business Cycle (ABC), a theme that runs through-out the book. The ABC is a holistic view of the business environment, architecture, the architect, and the development organisation.

    Discussions on Architecture Style.

    An overview of a Software Architecture Analysis Method (SAAM) for assessing the suitability of a candidate architecture.

    Numerous and insightful cases studies including, AE7-Avionics System, WWW, CORBA, air traffic control, flight simulation, and command-and-control systems.

    Dislikes,

    In digestible tables and check-lists.

    No cases studies from the financial environment. Where are the cases for banking, insurance and accountancy for instance?

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    5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book on an increasingly important discipline.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars excellent text-book on software architecture
    This book offers a very good overview of this important discipline as well as a sound introduction into state-of-the-art architecture-centered engineering. Read more
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