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Communicating Software Architectures with arc42

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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 practical tips how to improve your architecture communication and documentation.

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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

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Gernot Starke

Dr. Gernot Starke (INNOQ Fellow) is co-founder and longstanding user of the (open source) arc42 documentation template. For more than 20 years, he has been working as software-architect, coach and consultant, conquering the challenges of creating effective software architectures for clients from various industries.

Gernot co-founded the International Software Architecture Qualification Board (iSAQB e.V.) and the (open source) Architecture Improvement Method (https://aim42.org).

Gernot has authored several (German) books on software architecture and related topics.

Peter Hruschka

Dr. Peter Hruschka is co-founder and enthusiastic user of the (open source) req42 documentation template for requirements communication and documentation, as well as co-founder of the corresponding arc42 template for software and systems architects.

He is also a founding member of the International Requirements Engineering Board (IREB e.V.) and helped creating foundation and advanced level curricula for the certification of Business Analysts and Requiremetns Engineers worldwide.

Peter is a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, an international think tank that has influenced the systematic development of IT systems through numerous publications and presentations.

He lives betweeen Aachen, Germany and his holiday home in Austria with his wife Monika. When not working, he can usually be found in the most beautiful parts of the world, trying to hit little white balls into holes that are way too far away and way too small.

E-mail: peter@systemsguild.com or hruschka@b-agile.de 

Contents

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • 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
  • 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
  • III. Fundamentals of Effective Documentation
    • III.1 Documentation Requirements
    • III.2 Fundamental Tips for Documentation
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

Contributors

About the Contributors

Sven Johann

Sven helped in translating from the German version to English.

Andreas Steinbrecher

Cover designed by Andreas Steinbrecher.

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