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
Download link:
http://www.4shared.com/office/UGCQPIEX/Software-Architecture-in-Pract.html
