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Design Practice Reference

Activities and Templates to Craft Quality Software in Style

Olaf Zimmermann and Mirko Stocker

A collection of proven software engineering and architecture design method elements to accelerate project work and reduce technical risk. Suited for API design and (micro-)service architectures. Activity descriptions and artifact templates for non-functional requirements, domain models, architectural decision records, API contracts. Sample content.

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DPR (pronounced "deeper") collects artifact templates and practices from engineering methods (old and new) that are applicable to service-oriented analysis and design (and beyond). Sample content can be found here.

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Olaf Zimmermann

Hands-on software architect with a PhD in architectural decision modeling. Author of "Patterns for API Design", creator of the MDSL service contract language. Co-leader of Markdown Architectural Decisions (MADR) project, creator of the Y-Statement template for AD capturing. Domain-driven designer and method engineer (DPR, ESE, VDAD). Blogs about technical writing, software architecture and API design on Medium. Fond of backronyms such as ACID, IDEAL, JEDi, POINT, SOLID (learn more).

Mirko Stocker

Full-stack engineer fluent in Java:script with Spring and React, with a special place in my heart for Scala and the Play framework. Interested in APIs, patterns, refactoring, and growing green software.

Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

  1. Who should read this book? And why?
  2. Methods: The good, the bad, and the why
  3. General method adoption principle: Be pragmatic!
  4. The templates
  5. Book content
  6. The GitHub repository companion to this book
  7. Current status of book and repository
  8. About the authors

Introduction

  1. Content organization and terminology
  2. Overview and dependencies (steps)
  3. Quick links (getting started)
  4. Other method/practice collections

Activities Reference

  1. Architectural Decision Capturing
  2. Architecture Modeling
  3. SMART Non-Functional Requirement (NFR) Elicitation
  4. Story Splitting
  5. Strategic Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
  6. Tactic(al) Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
  7. User Interface Mocking
  8. Stepwise Service Design

Artifacts Reference

  1. Architectural Decision Record (Y-Statement)
  2. Components, Responsibilities, Collaborations (CRC) Card
  3. Component Diagram
  4. Context Diagram
  5. Deployment Diagram
  6. Domain Model
  7. Overview Diagram
  8. Quality Attribute Scenario (QAS)
  9. DDD Context Map
  10. Use Case (Model)
  11. User Stories
  12. API Description
  13. Candidate Endpoint List (CEL)
  14. Refined Endpoint List (REL)
  15. Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Roles Reference

  1. Application and Integration Architect
  2. API Product Owner

Examples of Design Practices in Action

  1. Story 1: Architectural decision capturing matters
  2. Story 2: User stories vs. use cases vs. both
  3. Story 3: “Patterns for API Design” and its Lakeside Mutual case study
  4. More examples

Critical Review and Discussion

  1. When and when not to go “deeper”
  2. Where to start exploring?
  3. Really mighty and enabling?

Done with Design Practice Reference: What’s Next?

Bibliography

Cheat Sheet

Backlog of Missing Method Elements

Copyright, Trademarks, Disclaimers

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