Arie van Deursen 📚 reviewed Software Architecture by Mary Shaw
A classic
3 stars
The classic that bootstrapped the field of software architecture
Paperback
English language
Published April 11, 1996
3 stars
(2 reviews)
Good software developers often adopt one or several architectural patterns as strategies for system organization. But, although they use these patterns purposefully, they often use them informally and nearly unconsciously. This book organizes this substantial emerging "folklore" of system design -- with its rich language of system description -- and closes the gap between the useful abstractions (constructs and patterns) of system design and the current models, notations and tools. It identifies useful patterns clearly, gives examples, compares them, and evaluates their utility in various settings -- allowing readers to develop a repertoire of useful techniques that goes beyond the single-minded current fads.
KEY TOPICS: Examines the ways in which architectural issues can impact software design; shows how to design new systems in principled ways using well-understood architectural paradigms; emphasizes informal descriptions, touching lightly on formal notations and specifications, and the tools that support them; explains how to understand and …
Good software developers often adopt one or several architectural patterns as strategies for system organization. But, although they use these patterns purposefully, they often use them informally and nearly unconsciously. This book organizes this substantial emerging "folklore" of system design -- with its rich language of system description -- and closes the gap between the useful abstractions (constructs and patterns) of system design and the current models, notations and tools. It identifies useful patterns clearly, gives examples, compares them, and evaluates their utility in various settings -- allowing readers to develop a repertoire of useful techniques that goes beyond the single-minded current fads.
KEY TOPICS: Examines the ways in which architectural issues can impact software design; shows how to design new systems in principled ways using well-understood architectural paradigms; emphasizes informal descriptions, touching lightly on formal notations and specifications, and the tools that support them; explains how to understand and evaluate the design of existing software systems from an architectural perspective; and presents concrete examples of actual system architectures that can serve as models for new designs.
MARKET: For professional software developers looking for new ideas about system organization.
Christoph reviewed Software Architecture by Mary Shaw
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3 stars
This book really reminded me on books for lectures during my university time. I know this book is quite old, but still it felt a bit too heavy and the academic approaches with the models and the Z language didn't help here either.
What I found interesting though was the comparison of different architecture approaches for concrete examples, like the robot ones, although I think the results are a bit difficult to grasp.
And I also liked the points about migration from craftsmanship to engineering: My impression is we we still didn't achieve this yet.