Software Architectures—Views and Documentation
Miroslaw Staron · 2020
Software architecture is the foundation for automotive software design. Being a high-level design view of the system it combines multiple views on the software system, and provides the project teams with the possibility to communicate and make technical decisions about the organization of the functionality of the entire software system. It allows also us to understand and to predict the performance of the system before it is even designed. In this chapter we introduce the definitions related to software architectures which we will use in the remainder of the book. We discuss the views used during the process of architectural design and discuss their practical implications.