Visualise, document and explore your software architecture
Visualise, document and explore your software architecture
Software Architecture for Developers - Volume 2
About the Book
This book focusses on the visual communication and documentation of software architecture, based upon a collection of ideas and techniques that thousands of people across the world have found useful. The core of this is my C4 software architecture model and the software guidebook. You'll also find discussion about notation, the various uses for diagrams, the value of creating a model and tooling.
This book was formerly called "The Art of Visualising Software Architecture", and now additionally includes information about documentation.
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Table of Contents
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- About the book
- About the author
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I Visualise
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1. We have a failure to communicate
- 1.1 What happened to SSADM, RUP, UML, etc?
- 1.2 A lightweight approach
- 1.3 Moving fast requires good communication
- 1.4 Draw one or more diagrams
- 1.5 Where do we start?
- 1.6 Some examples
- 1.7 Common problems
- 1.8 The hidden assumptions of diagrams
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2. A shared vocabulary
- 2.1 Common abstractions over a common notation
- 2.2 Static structure
- 2.3 Components vs code?
- 2.4 Modules and subsystems?
- 2.5 Microservices?
- 2.6 Serverless?
- 2.7 Platforms, frameworks and libraries?
- 2.8 Create your own shared vocabulary
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3. The C4 model
- 3.1 Hierarchical maps of your code
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4. Level 1: System Context diagram
- 4.1 Intent
- 4.2 Structure
- 4.3 Elements
- 4.4 Interactions
- 4.5 Motivation
- 4.6 Audience
- 4.7 Required or optional?
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5. Level 2: Container diagram
- 5.1 Intent
- 5.2 Structure
- 5.3 Elements
- 5.4 Interactions
- 5.5 Motivation
- 5.6 Audience
- 5.7 Required or optional?
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6. Level 3: Component diagram
- 6.1 Intent
- 6.2 Structure
- 6.3 Elements
- 6.4 Interactions
- 6.5 Motivation
- 6.6 Audience
- 6.7 Required or optional?
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7. Level 4: Code-level diagrams
- 7.1 Intent
- 7.2 Structure
- 7.3 Motivation
- 7.4 Audience
- 7.5 Required or optional?
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8. Notation
- 8.1 Titles
- 8.2 Keys and legends
- 8.3 Elements
- 8.4 Lines
- 8.5 Layout
- 8.6 Orientation
- 8.7 Acronyms
- 8.8 Quality attributes
- 8.9 Diagram scope
- 8.10 Listen for questions
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9. Diagrams must reflect reality
- 9.1 The model-code gap
- 9.2 Technology details on diagrams
- 9.3 Would you code it that way?
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10. Other diagrams
- 10.1 Architectural view models
- 10.2 System Landscape
- 10.3 User interface mockups and wireframes
- 10.4 Business process and workflow
- 10.5 Domain model
- 10.6 Runtime and behaviour
- 10.7 Infrastructure
- 10.8 Deployment
- 10.9 And more
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1. We have a failure to communicate
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II Document
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11. Software documentation as a guidebook
- 11.1 The code doesn’t tell the whole story
- 11.2 Our duty to deliver documentation
- 11.3 Lightweight, supplementary documentation
- 11.4 1. Maps
- 11.5 2. Sights
- 11.6 3. History and culture
- 11.7 4. Practical information
- 11.8 Describe what you can’t get from the code
- 11.9 Product vs project documentation
- 11.10 Keeping documentation up to date
- 11.11 Documentation length
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12. Context
- 12.1 Intent
- 12.2 Structure
- 12.3 Motivation
- 12.4 Audience
- 12.5 Required
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13. Functional Overview
- 13.1 Intent
- 13.2 Structure
- 13.3 Motivation
- 13.4 Audience
- 13.5 Required
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14. Quality Attributes
- 14.1 Intent
- 14.2 Structure
- 14.3 Motivation
- 14.4 Audience
- 14.5 Required
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15. Constraints
- 15.1 Intent
- 15.2 Structure
- 15.3 Motivation
- 15.4 Audience
- 15.5 Required
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16. Principles
- 16.1 Intent
- 16.2 Structure
- 16.3 Motivation
- 16.4 Audience
- 16.5 Required
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17. Software Architecture
- 17.1 Intent
- 17.2 Structure
- 17.3 Motivation
- 17.4 Audience
- 17.5 Required
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18. Code
- 18.1 Intent
- 18.2 Structure
- 18.3 Motivation
- 18.4 Audience
- 18.5 Required
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19. Data
- 19.1 Intent
- 19.2 Structure
- 19.3 Motivation
- 19.4 Audience
- 19.5 Required
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20. Infrastructure Architecture
- 20.1 Intent
- 20.2 Structure
- 20.3 Motivation
- 20.4 Audience
- 20.5 Required
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21. Deployment
- 21.1 Intent
- 21.2 Structure
- 21.3 Motivation
- 21.4 Audience
- 21.5 Required
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22. Operation and Support
- 22.1 Intent
- 22.2 Structure
- 22.3 Motivation
- 22.4 Audience
- 22.5 Required
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23. Development Environment
- 23.1 Intent
- 23.2 Structure
- 23.3 Motivation
- 23.4 Audience
- 23.5 Required
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24. Decision Log
- 24.1 Intent
- 24.2 Structure
- 24.3 Motivation
- 24.4 Audience
- 24.5 Required
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11. Software documentation as a guidebook
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III Tooling
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25. Sketches, diagrams, models and tooling
- 25.1 Sketches
- 25.2 Diagrams
- 25.3 Models
- 25.4 Reverse-engineering the software architecture model
- 25.5 Architecture description languages
- 25.6 Structurizr
- 25.7 Minimise the model-code gap
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26. The C4 model with other notations and tools
- 26.1 Boxes and lines
- 26.2 UML (with a modeling tool)
- 26.3 UML (with PlantUML)
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27. Exploring your software architecture model
- 27.1 Static structure
- 27.2 Dependency maps
- 27.3 Component size or complexity
- 27.4 Other ways to explore
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28. Appendix A: Financial Risk System
- 28.1 Background
- 28.2 Functional Requirements
- 28.3 Non-functional Requirements
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25. Sketches, diagrams, models and tooling
- Notes
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