Conducting Component-Level Design

Step 1. Identify all design classes that correspond to the problem domain. Step 2. Identify all design classes that correspond to the infrastructure domain. Step 3. Elaborate all design classes that are not acquired as reusable components. Elaboration requires that all interfaces, attributes, and operations necessary to implement the class be described in detail. Design…

Component Level Design

Component-level design occurs after the first iteration of architectural design has been completed. At this stage, the overall data and program structure of the software has been established. A component is defined in UML as: “a modular, deployable, and replaceable part of a system that encapsulates implementation and exposes a set of interfaces.” However, different…

Reasons for Software Architecture

Software Architecture is the structure, or structures, of the system that comprise of software components, the externally visible properties of the components, and the relationships among them. Architecture is not operational software, rather it is representative to allow you to see how effective your design is and consider alternatives. It focuses on components. It may…

Sitewide Links

The most common form of linking will be to other pages within your website. These are often called internal site links, as they are part of your own website. When you link to another file, you need to specify the file name in the href attribute like is shown below. Notice that the only required…