In this article, Simon Brown discusses the impact of the Agile approaches on the conception and representation of software architectures. The main point of the article is that software developers seems to have abandoned the Unified Modeling Language (UML) or just haven’t learned it. The question is then: how would …
“Just Enough Software Architecture” is book that provides guidelines and models on how to include just enough architecture in your software development activities, following an Agile approach and using risk as the main criteria on how much architecture to include in your current activity.
This article describes the famous 4+1 View Model of Architecture proposed by Philippe Krutchen. The 4+1 View Model organizes a description of a software architecture using five concurrent views, each of which addresses a specific set of concerns. Architects capture their design decisions in four views and use the fifth …
This article presents how to use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 to create and maintain consistent, correct and communicative software architecture models .