• A functional software architecture (FSA) is an architectural model that identifies enterprise functions, interactions and corresponding IT needs. These...
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    Software architecture is the set of structures needed to reason about a software system and the discipline of creating such structures and systems. Each...
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  • non-functional requirements is detailed in the system architecture, because they are usually architecturally significant requirements. In software architecture...
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    industrial software engineering life-cycle (waterfall model), functional specification describes what has to be implemented. The next, systems architecture document...
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  • In software engineering and systems engineering, a functional requirement defines a function of a system or its component, where a function is described...
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  • Look up functional in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Functional may refer to: Movements in architecture: Functionalism (architecture) Form follows function...
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  • In software engineering, multitier architecture (often referred to as n-tier architecture) is a client–server architecture in which presentation, application...
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  • the context of software engineering, software quality refers to two related but distinct notions:[citation needed] Software's functional quality reflects...
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    be non-functional requirements such as testability, scalability, maintainability, performance, and security. A fundamental limitation of software testing...
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  • List of system quality attributes (category Software engineering terminology)
    attributes are realized non-functional requirements used to evaluate the performance of a system. These are sometimes named architecture characteristics, or "ilities"...
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  • of a so-called technical architecture, the architecture must be communicated to software developers; a functional architecture is communicated to various...
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  • In software engineering, Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method (ATAM) is a risk-mitigation process used early in the software development life cycle. ATAM...
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  • contexts of software architecture, service-orientation and service-oriented architecture, the term service refers to a software functionality, or a set...
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  • his work on Patterns in Architecture had developed and his hopes for how the Software Design community could help Architecture extend Patterns to create...
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  • provide the functionality of a large software application, a principle SOA shares with modular programming. Service-oriented architecture integrates distributed...
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  • distinguishing which software requirements are architecturally significant and whether they are functional when discussing software architecture is worth it....
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    the same underlying chip, allowing it to run a wider variety of software. Pin architecture: The hardware functions that a microprocessor should provide to...
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  • self-contained system (SCS) is a software architecture approach that focuses on a separation of the functionality into many independent systems, making...
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  • In software engineering, a microservice architecture is an architectural pattern that organizes an application into a collection of loosely coupled, fine-grained...
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  • structure, and/or implementation of the software (its non-functional attributes), while preserving its functionality. Potential advantages of refactoring...
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  • particular business function. These EAS software components and modules can interoperate, so that cross-functional or inter-organizational enterprise systems...
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  • Software as a service (SaaS /sæs/) is a cloud computing service model where the provider offers use of application software to a client and manages all...
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  • It's software architect's responsibility to match architectural characteristics (aka non-functional requirements) with business requirements. For example:...
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  • Software architecture analysis method (SAAM) is a method used in software architecture to evaluate a system architecture. It was the first documented software...
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  • CI/CD (category Software development)
    developers, then link and package them into software deliverables. Automated tests verify the software functionality, and automated deployment services deliver...
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  • implemented. Architecture/Design – Overview of software. Includes relations to an environment and construction principles to be used in design of software components...
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  • both high-level software architecture and low-level component and algorithm design. In terms of the waterfall development process, software design is the...
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  • In software engineering and software architecture design, architectural decisions are design decisions that address architecturally significant requirements;...
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    of computer architecture and software architecture can also be referred to as high-level design. The baseline in selecting the architecture is that it...
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    a mapping of functionality onto hardware and software components, a mapping of the software architecture onto the hardware architecture, and human interaction...
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