Ch5: Designing Software Architectures

Chapter 5: Designing Software Architectures

Distilled concepts from Chapter 5 of the Software Architect’s Handbook.

Sections

• Software architecture design
• The importance of software architecture design
• Top-down versus bottom-up design approaches
• Greenfield versus brownfield software systems
• Architectural drivers
• Leveraging design principles and existing solutions
• Documenting the software architecture design
• Using a systematic approach to software architecture design
• Attribute-driven design (ADD)
• Microsoft’s technique for architecture and design
• Architecture-centric design method (ACDM)
• Architecture development method (ADM)
• Tracking the progress of the software architecture’s design
• Summary