glossary:architecture
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Architecture
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Definition
The software architecture defines the coarse structures of the system and how to think about the software as a developer.
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The software architecture of a program or computing system is the structure or structures of the system, which comprise software elements, the externally visible properties of those elements, and the relationships among them.1)
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Len Bass, Paul Clements and Rick Kazman: Software Architecture in Practice
glossary/architecture.txt · Last modified: 2013-08-11 14:21 by christian