Communicating Software Architectures with arc42
Communicating Software Architectures with arc42
Lean, effective & painless documentation
About the Book
This practical guide shows how you can effectively apply the practical and well-proven arc42 template to design, develop and document your software architecture. It contains more than 200 concrete and pragmatical tips how to improve your architecture communication and documentation:
- immediately actionable tips
- arc42 for practical software development
- effective communication and documentation of software architectures
- arc42 to construct, design and implement new systems
- arc42 to document existing system
- arc42 for { large | medium | small } systems
- tools for arc42: wikis, asciidoc, modeling tools an others
- frequently asked questions around arc42
About the Authors
Bundles that include this book
About the Contributors
Cover designed by Andreas Steinbrecher.
Sven helped in translating from the German version to English.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
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I. Introduction
- I.1 Basic Principles of arc42
- I.2 Why This Book
- I.3 What This Book is NOT
- I.4 Our Assumptions About You
- I.5 Quick Navigation
- I.6 Conventions
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II. arc42 by Example
- II.1. Introduction and Goals
- II.2 Constraints
- II.3 Context
- II.4 Solution Strategy
- II.5 Building Block View
- II.6 Runtime View
- II.7 Deployment view
- II.8 Technical and Crosscutting Concepts
- II.9 Design Decisions
- II.10 Quality Scenarios
- II.11 Risks and technical debt
- II.12 Glossary
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III. Fundamentals of Effective Documentation
- III.1 Documentation Requirements
- III.2 Fundamental Tips for Documentation
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IV. Effective use of arc42
- IV.1 Tips for introduction and goals
- IV.2 Tips for constraints
- IV.3 Tips for the context view
- IV.4 Tips for solution strategy
- IV.5 Tips for building block view
- IV.6 Tips for the runtime view
- IV.7 Tips for deployment view
- IV.8 Tips for crosscutting concepts
- IV.9 Tips for architecture decisions
- IV.10 Tips for quality scenarios
- IV.11 Tips for risks and technical debt
- IV.12 Tips for the glossary
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V. arc42 in Everyday Work
- V.1 Good Start
- V.2 arc42 for Existing Systems
- V.3 arc42 for New Systems
- V.4 arc42 for Agile Projects
- V.5 arc42 for Large Scale Systems
- VI. Tools for arc42
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VII. Frequently Asked Questions
- VII.A General questions
- VII.B Questions on methodology
- VII.C Questions on arc42 sections
- VII.D Questions on modeling
- VII.E Questions on arc42 and agile methods
- VII.F Questions on tools for arc42
- VII.G Questions on arc42 and versions / variants
- VII.H Questions on arc42 and traceability
- VII.J Questions on managing documentation
- VII.K Questions on customizing arc42
- Appendix A: Further References and Resources
- Appendix B: Also by This Author
- Appendix C: About Gernot Starke
- Appendix D: Table of Tips
- Appendix E: Table of Questions
- Notes
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