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Prefer models over diagrams
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Visualise, Document and Explore Your Software Architecture
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- 1 Visualise, document and explore your software architecture
- 2 The primary use for diagrams and documentation is communication and learning
- 3 Software architects struggle to communicate software architecture
- 4 Do you use UML?
- 5 Why is there a separation between the logical and development views?
- 6 Our architecture diagrams don't match the code.
- 7 We lack a common vocabulary to describe software architecture
- 8 A common set of abstractions is more important than a common notation
- 9 A model of the static structure forms the basis for other views
- 10 Working software over comprehensive documentation
- 11 The code doesn't tell the whole story
- 12 Describe what you can't get from the code
- 13 The scope is a single software system
- 14 How do you keep software architecture documentation up to date?
- 15 What tools do you recommend?
- 16 Whiteboards and paper for up front design
- 17 Text-based diagrams can be version controlled, generated from build scripts, etc
- 18 Architecture description languages provide a way to describe architecture as text Darwin, ACME, Koala, Wright, ...
- 19 Diagrams are not useful for architectural improvement if they are not connected to the code
- 20 Reverse-engineer code to diagrams?
- 21 Prefer models over diagrams
