Chapter 7

Architecture and Detailed Design

7.1 Introduction

The previous chapters explored the architectural analysis and design of the building automation system and showed that using the architecture-centric approach we arrive at an architecture that supports the business and mission goals of the application. This approach, however, leaves the fine-grained design details unspecified. Although such details are not a necessary part of architectural design, it is essential to understand the relationship between high-level architectural design and low-level detailed design and see how development work transitions from one to the other.

The mainstream methodology used in practice for detailed design is object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) ...

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