Discussion Questions
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What is it possible and not possible to say about data flow by looking at a view in the module viewtype? What about control flow? What can you say about which modules interact with which other modules? |
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Which properties of a module might you think of as worthy of having special notational conventions to express them, and why? For example, you might want to color a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) module differently from modules developed in-house. |
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The depends-on relation among modules is very general. What specific types of dependencies might be reflected in a style in the module viewtype? |
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A primary property of a module is its set of responsibilities. How do a module's responsibilities differ from the requirements that it must satisfy? |
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When documenting a particular system, you might wish to combine modules into an aggregate, to market them as a combined package, for example. Would this package itself be a module? That is, are all aggregates of modules themselves modules? |
Software Architectures and Documentation
- P.1. The Role of Architecture
- P.2. Uses of Architecture Documentation
- P.3. Interfaces
- P.4. Views
- P.5. Viewtypes and Styles
- P.6. Seven Rules for Sound Documentation
- P.7. Summary Checklist
- P.8. Discussion Questions
- P.9. For Further Reading
Part I. Software Architecture Viewtypes and Styles
The Module Viewtype
- Overview
- Elements, Relations, and Properties of the Module Viewtype
- What the Module Viewtype Is For and What Its Not For
- Notations for the Module Viewtype
- Relation to Other Viewtypes
- Summary Checklist
- Discussion Questions
- For Further Reading
Styles of the Module Viewtype
- Styles of the Module Viewtype
- Decomposition Style
- Uses Style
- Generalization Style
- Layered Style
- Summary Checklist
- Discussion Questions
- For Further Reading
The Component-and-Connector Viewtype
- Overview
- Elements, Relations, and Properties of the C&C Viewtype
- What the C&C Viewtype Is For and What Its Not For
- Relation to Other Viewtypes
- Summary Checklist
- Discussion Questions
- For Further Reading
Styles of the Component-and-Connector Viewtype
- Styles of the Component-and-Connector Viewtype
- The Pipe-and-Filter Style
- Shared-Data Style
- Publish-Subscribe Style
- Client-Server Style
- Peer-to-Peer Style
- Communicating-Processes Style
- Notations for C&C Styles
- Summary Checklist
- Discussion Questions
- For Further Reading
The Allocation Viewtype and Styles
- Overview
- Elements, Relations, and Properties of the Allocation Viewtype
- Deployment Style
- Implementation Style
- Work Assignment Style
- Summary Checklist
- Discussion Questions
- For Further Reading
Part II. Software Architecture Documentation in Practice
- Part II. Software Architecture Documentation in Practice
- ECS Architecture Documentation Roadmap
- ECS System Overview
- ECS Software Architecture View Template
- Mapping Between Views
- Directory
- Architecture Glossary and Acronym List
- Module Decomposition View
- Module Uses View
- Module Generalization View
- Module Layered View
- C&C Pipe-and-Filter View
- C&C Shared-Data View
- C&C Communicating-Processes View
- Allocation Deployment View
- Allocation Implementation View
- Allocation Work Assignment View
Advanced Concepts
- Advanced Concepts
- Chunking Information: View Packets, Refinement, and Descriptive Completeness
- Using Context Diagrams
- Combined Views
- Documenting Variability and Dynamism
- Creating and Documenting a New Style
- Summary Checklist
- Discussion Questions
- For Further Reading
Documenting Software Interfaces
- Overview
- Interface Specifications
- A Standard Organization for Interface Documentation
- Stakeholders of Interface Documentation
- Notation for Interface Documentation
- Examples of Interface Documentation
- Summary Checklist
- Discussion Questions
- For Further Reading
Documenting Behavior
- Beyond Structure
- Where to Document Behavior
- Why to Document Behavior
- What to Document
- How to Document Behavior: Notations and Languages
- Summary Checklist
- Discussion Questions
- For Further Reading
Choosing the Views
- Choosing the Views
- Stakeholders and Their Documentation Needs
- Making the Choice
- Two Examples
- Summary Checklist
- Discussion Questions
- For Further Reading
Building the Documentation Package
- Building the Documentation Package
- One Document or Several?
- Documenting a View
- Documentation Beyond Views
- Validating Software Architecture Documentation
- Summary Checklist
- Discussion Questions
- For Further Reading
Other Views and Beyond
- Other Views and Beyond
- Overview
- Rational Unified Process/Kruchten 4+1
- UML
- Siemens Four Views
- C4ISR Architecture Framework
- ANSI/IEEE-1471-2000
- Data Flow and Control Flow
- RM-ODP
- Where Architecture Documentation Ends
- A Final Word
- For Further Reading
- Appendix A. Excerpts from a Software Architecture Documentation Package
- Volume I ECS Software Architecture Documentation Beyond Views
Rationale, Background, and Design Constraints
References
EAN: 2147483647
Pages: 152
