Books : Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond (SEI Series in Software Engineering)
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by: Paul Clements, Felix Bachmann, Len Bass, David Garlan, James Ivers, Reed Little, Robert Nord, Judith Stafford
List Price: $74.99Amazon.com's Price: $59.99 You Save: $15.00 (20%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.22
EAN: 9780201703726
ISBN: 0201703726
Label: Addison-Wesley Professional
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: October 06, 2002
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Sales Rank: 381989
Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Helps you decide what information to document and then, with guidelines and examples, shows you how to express an architecture in a form that everyone can understand. An important reference on the shelf of the software architect.
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Rating:  - The best thinking on documenting software architecture
Simply put, I think this book represents the best thinking about documenting software architectures. You can find other books that include different aspects covered in this book (documenting views, 4+1, ANSI/IEEE-1471-2000, etc). However, you will have a hard time finding a book that pulls it all together, provides the rationale and includes the "beyond" part which discusses other approaches to documenting software architectures and how they relate to the "Views and Beyond" (V&B) approach. For ... Read More
Rating:  - detailed advice about designing
Clements shows how to use various notations to document your software design. Of these, perhaps UML is now the most common. The advice in the text can be used to first design your code, before programming. Certainly, you should somehow have a design laid out first. You do, don't you?
The book offers structural advice about how to do this. From the low level "mechanical" details of the UML notation, to more general conceptual issues. Various possible architectures are outlined. Client-server, ... Read More
Rating: - The best to date
Software architecture really is unlike any other aspect of its design. The architecture has deeper meaning and larger scale than any other aspect, and can't be discussed in the same ways.
This book opens that discussion. Among the "architecture" books I've read lately, this is the only one to offer concrete advice on describing, presenting, and analyzing archtiectural features of a system. It identifies a number of documentation types and variations. It also identifies a number of different readers ... Read More
Rating:  - Quite skimpy
This is not a bad introductory documentation book, but quite skimpy in the amount of information and examples it contains.
Not sure it is worth buying at that price. I bought it after reading the previous reviews - I think they overrated it!
Rating: - The only technical documentation book you'll need
After reading my colleague's comments I rushed out and purchased this book. I, too, am trained and certified in Information Mapping© and was impressed at how closely the approach in this book is aligned to that method. However, what I like most is the fact that this book can be used as guidance for a wider scope than just documenting software architectures because it shows how to organize your documentation requirements, develop clear documentation and manage the entire process from start to finish.
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