The Process of Software Architecting

Foreword

by Grady Booch

The study of the architecting of software-intensive systems is currently a vibrant concern. Although a number of books and papers describing the concepts of software architecture have emerged, far fewer address the practice of architecting. This is such a book.

Here, the authors offer their seasoned perspective on architecture: what it is, how it manifests itself, who does it, how it relates to the other artifacts of a software development project. Although this book covers all the important fundamentals of representing a system’s architecture, the strength of this work lies in its deep examination of a method for architecting. I say deep because the authors explain their ways by using well-defined models, but happily, ...