Reasons for Software Architecture

ByWalter Wimberly

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 be as simple as a Class or as complicated at a middle-ware components, databases, etc that can be configured and managed.

Why is architecture important?

  • Software architecture provides a representation that facilitates communication among all stakeholders.
  • The architecture highlights early design decisions that will have a profound impact on all software engineering work that follows.
  • Architecture “constitutes a relatively small, intellectually graspable model of how the system is structured and how its components work together” [Bas03].

Reasons for Software Architecture was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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