Documenting the software architecture design
An important part of architecture design is documenting the design, including the many design decisions that are made during the process. This typically comes in the form of sketching architecture views and documenting the design rationale.
Sketching the architecture design
Software architectures are commonly documented through the creation of architecture views. Architecture views are representations of a software architecture that are used to document it and communicate it to various stakeholders. Multiple views of an architecture are typically required, as a software architecture is too complex to be represented in a single, comprehensive model.
Formal documentation of a software architecture through views will be covered Chapter 12, Documenting and Reviewing Software Architectures, and is not typically done as part of the design process. While that type of documentation comes afterward, informal documentation, in the form of sketches, should...
