Rick Kazman

Humberto Cervantes

Designing Software Architectures is the first step-by-step guide to making the crucial design decisions that can make or break your software architecture. SEI expert Rick Kazman and Dr. Humberto Cervantes provide comprehensive guidance for ensuring that your architectural design decisions are consistently rational and evidence-based. Drawing on their own extensive experience, they demonstrate how to craft designs that are practical and effective, and support all phases of architectural development, from requirements to documentation. You'll learn how to successfully integrate the design process in an organizational context, including designing systems that will be built with agile methods. The authors begin with a general review of software architecture concepts and the software architecture lifecycle. Next, they explain what architecture design really means, introduce key design concepts and principles, and walk through both conventional and alternative design processes. Building on this foundation, they introduce the new Attribute-Driven Design (ADD) 3.0 process, walk the reader through two extended ADD 3.0 case studies, and demonstrate how ADD 3.0 can lead to more successful designs. You'll learn how to scale design and analysis up and down - for example, to design for pre-sales processes and lightweight architecture reviews. Kazman and Cervantes illuminate the relationships between analysis and design, introduce a set of reusable design primitives, and identify issues and solutions for new domains, including cloud, mobile, and big data. Design is the core activity for software designers and architects, but for most practitioners, it's been a black art. This book offers the systematic guidance you need to consistently do it rationally, and do it right.

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Designing Software Architectures

Designing Software Architectures will teach you how to design any software architecture in a systematic, predictable, repeatable, and cost-effective way. This book introduces a practical methodology for architecture design that any professional software engineer can use, provides structured methods supported by reusable chunks of design knowledge, and includes rich case studies that demonstrate how to use the methods. Using realistic examples, you’ll master the powerful new version of the proven Attribute-Driven Design (ADD) 3.0 method and will learn how to use it to address key drivers, including quality attributes, such as modifiability, usability, and availability, along with functional requirements and architectural concerns. Drawing on their extensive experience, Humberto Cervantes and Rick Kazman guide you through crafting practical designs that support the full software life cycle, from requirements to maintenance and evolution. You’ll learn how to successfully integrate design in your organizational context, and how to design systems that will be built with agile methods. Comprehensive coverage includes Understanding what architecture design involves, and where it fits in the full software development life cycle Mastering core design concepts, principles, and processes Understanding how to perform the steps of the ADD method Scaling design and analysis up or down, including design for pre-sale processes or lightweight architecture reviews Recognizing and optimizing critical relationships between analysis and design Utilizing proven, reusable design primitives and adapting them to specific problems and contexts Solving design problems in new domains, such as cloud, mobile, or big data

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