Um livro-texto para o ensino de projeto de arquitetura de software.

Abstract

The software architecture is the organization of a software system manifested in its modules, their relationships to the environment, and the principles that guide its design and evolution. The design of the software architecture is important to the development process because it guides the software’s quality attributes implementation and helps the intellectual control over the problem complexity. Besides that, the software architecture also supports conceptual integrity by being a tool for stakeholders’s communication. Most of the books available on Software Architecture are intended for experienced students. However, the inexperienced ones, such as undergraduate students, are not able to fully benefits from these books because they lack some previous knowledge required by many authors. The objective of this work is to write an introductory textbook on Software Architecture Design, which will be focused on such students. This book will then be able to support undergraduate courses on the subject and will cover topics recommended by the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge, edited by the IEEE Computer Society. This book intends both to enable students to understand and apply the benefits of architectural design and documentation processes on the software lifecycle, and to enable the students to easier comprehend more advanced books and articles, which were previously inadequate for their experience.