Associate Architect - View

Concept of structural design

 

 

Role of Architect

• What it's composed of and how they work -> Make SW imaginable and easier to develop
• The software architecture of a system is  the set of structures needed to reason about the system, which comprise software elements, relations among them, and properties of both.

 

5 View types

• Module view
  Modules, which are implementation units of software.
  Is part of, which defines a part/whole relationship between the submodule the part-and the aggregate module the whole.
  Depends on, which defines a dependency relationship between two modules. Specifiv module views elaborate what dependency is meant.
  Is a, which defines a generalization/specialization relationship between a more specific module and a more general module.
• Component-Connector view
  COmponents : Principal processing units and data stores. A component has a set of ports through which it interacts with other components.
  Connectors : Pathways of interaction between components. Connectors have a set of roles that indicate how components may use a connector in interactions.
• Work Assignment view
  The work assignment style describes the mapping of the software architecture to the teams in the development organization.
• Deployment view
  The deployment style describes the mapping of components and connectors in the software architecture to the hardware of the computing platform.
• Install view

 

 

Example

• Structural diagram of operation/execution side is drawn with component & connector view or deployment view.
• The development side structure diagram is a module or work assignment view.
• Need the ability to visualize my thoughts and explain them.