Recommended Practice for Architectural Description of Software-Intensive Systems
ANSI/IEEE Std 1471 :: ISO/IEC 42010
http://www.iso-architecture.org/ieee-1471/ieee-1471-faq.html
So, what is an architecture?
Architecture is that which is essential or unifying about a system; the set of properties of a system which determine the system's structure (form), behavior (function), value, cost, and risk. The definition in the recommended practice is:
architecture: the fundamental organization of a system embodied in its components, their relationships to each other and to the environment and the principles guiding its design and evolution.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
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