Software architecture

“It is argued that software architecture is an effective tool to cut development cost and time and to increase the quality of a system.”

“Releasing Linux versions has always been a matter of higher code quality, good software architecture, and technical interest for the platform.”

“Every software system needs to have a simple yet powerful organizational philosophy (think of it as the software equivalent of a sound bite that describes the system's architecture)... [A] step in [the] development process is to articulate this architectural framework, so that we might have a stable foundation upon which to evolve the system's function points.”

“All architecture is design but not all design is architecture. Architecture represents the significant design decisions that shape a system, where significant is measured by cost of change.”

“Software architecture is still mostly considered a separate issue from programming languages. We contend that this is a serious issue for the software engineering of interactive systems.”

“The goal for our software architecture is to provide the key mechanisms that are required to implement a wide variety of cross-layer adaptations described by our taxonomy. Our strategy for developing such an architecture is actually to create two architectures, a “conceptual” one, followed by a “concrete” one. In this step, we have first”

“Software architecture is at the center of a frenzy of attention these days... We hold that documenting software architecture is primarily about documenting the relevant views, and then augmenting this information with relevant information that applies across views.”

“Software architecture is becoming an important part of software design, which helps developers to handle the complexity of large systems.”

“By analogy to building architecture, we propose the following model of software architecture:”

“Although software architecture is an important discipline for software development, it can and should be complemented by other approaches such as, Design Patterns and Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD)”

“software architecture involves the description of elements from which systems are built, interactions among those elements, patterns that guide their composition, and constraints on these patterns. In general, a particular system is defined in terms of a collection of components and interactions among those components. Such a system may in turn be used as a (composite) element in a larger system design.”

“Software architecture is foundational to the development of large, practical software-intensive applications.”

“Software architecture is a relatively young discipline. There is as much confusion in it as there is excitement. In the literature one finds far too many perspectives, approaches, methodologies, frameworks, techniques and tricks.”