By Mary Shaw Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline [Paperback]

by Mary Shaw

Software developers have often adopted specific architectural patterns for system organization - but, for the most part, informally. In this book, authors Mary Shaw and David Garlan discuss the formalization of what, until now, has been "a substantial folklore of system design, with little consistency or precision." With their unique perspective on the current state of software architecture and its impact on design, the authors provide useful information for several types of Professional software developers will find new ideas in the discussion and evaluation of familiar patterns. Students will find useful techniques for approaching system organization from an architectural point of view, rather than following current fads or outmoded methodology. Educators will find the book helpful as a text for a software architecture course or as a supplemental text for courses in software engineering or software design. This book also includes hints for choosing a suitable architecture, the use of well-understood paradigms for designing new systems, how formal notation and models can characterize system design, and the study of actual system architectures as models for new designs.

Genres: Software, Architecture, Technical, Computer Science, Technology, Programming

Paperback

First published April 12, 1996

About the author

an American software engineer, and the Alan J. Perlis Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for her work in the field of software architecture

Reviews

[Christoph Kappel · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book really reminded me on books for lectures during my university time. I know this book is quite old, but still it felt a bit too heavy and the academic approaches with the models and the Z language didn't help here either.

What I found interesting though was the comparison of different architecture approaches for concrete examples, like the robot ones, although I think the results are a bit difficult to grasp.

And I also liked the points about migration from craftsmanship to engineering: My impression is we we still didn't achieve this yet.

[Dave · Rating 4 out of 5]

A mixed bag, some parts of this book were so profound I lingered for hours on a single sentence, other parts were banal descriptions of abstract software architecture style so dull that when I picked the book up again I had forgotten the context of the entire chapter.

[Anurag]

ok

[José Luis · Rating 5 out of 5]

The first serious work on emerging architectural patterns. A remarkable book that paved the way to the development of software architectures.