Glossary
Actors the other elements, users, or systems with which an element interacts.
Allocation style a kind of style that describes the mapping of software units to elements of an environment in which the software is developed or executes.
Architectural (architecture) pattern “an architectural pattern expresses a fundamental structural organization schema for software systems. It provides a set of predefined subsystems, specifies their responsibilities, and includes rules and guidelines for organizing the relationships between them” (Buschmann et al. 1996, page 12).
Architecture cartoon the graphical portion of a view’s primary presentation, without supporting documentation.
Architecture description language (ADL) a language for representing ...
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