SAF – Evaluation part II – the “Formal Methods”

Posted by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on May 11, 2010 in SAF | 0 comments

Onthe previous post on architecture evaluation  I talked about evaluating a candidate architecture in code. This post is dedicated to evaluation on paper. I remember one system I was working on, I was keen on making the architecture asynchronous and message oriented (it was all circa 2001 by the way) However, I was new on the team and my role (as the project’s architect) wasn’t well...

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SAF – Architecture Evaluation (Introduction)

Posted by Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz on May 11, 2010 in SAF | 0 comments

I said  in “what’s Software architecture” – architecture is both an early artifact and it also represents the significant decisions about the system – or to sum it up  ”Architecture is the decisions that you wish you could get right early in a project.”  (Ralph Johnston*). That is exactly why I made evaluation one of the key steps in SAF. We want to...

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