Aspect-Oriented Software Development with Use Cases

Chapter 11. Road to a Resilient Architecture

The single most important determinant of the quality of a software system is its architecture. A good architecture keeps concerns of different kinds separate so that a change in one does not affect other parts of the system. You establish this architecture by identifying the critical use cases for the system. By analyzing these critical use cases, you can build a resilient structure—one in which concerns of different kinds are kept separate and changes in one part of the system have minimum impact on the rest of the system. The architecture must also be designed to meet system-level concerns such as performance and reliability. The architecture is manifested in an early and critical version of the system, ...