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Defining Software Architecture: Insights from Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, and Ivar Jacobson

Software architecture is described as a set of critical decisions about system organization, including the selection of components, their interfaces, and collaborative behavior, and as a compositional style that progressively assembles these elements into larger subsystems, a definition comprehensively presented by Booch, Rumbaugh, and Jacobson in the UML User Guide.

Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Art of Distributed System Architecture Design
Defining Software Architecture: Insights from Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, and Ivar Jacobson

For the definition of software architecture, everyone's understanding differs. I personally think that the definitions given by Grady Booch , James Rumbaugh , and Ivar Jacobson in the The Unified Modeling Language user guide are relatively comprehensive:

Architecture is a set of important decisions about how a software system is organized; it is the selection of system components, component interfaces, and the ways these elements collaborate; it is a compositional method that gradually combines these structural and behavioral elements into larger subsystems; it is also a construction style that, under its guidance, organizes these elements, interfaces, and collaborations.

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