Top Highlights

• Our goal in writing this book was to provide a practical method that can be enacted by any competent software engineer, and also (and just as important) to provide a set of rich case studies that realize the method.
• We adopt the definition of software architecture from Software Architecture in Practice
• An architecture is the key artifact that allows the architect and the project manager to reason about cost and schedule.
• An architecture can be the foundation for training a new team member.
• Software architecture design is one of the software architecture life-cycle activities (Figure 1.1). As in any software project life cycle, this activity is concerned with the translation of requirements into a design into an implementation.