| Term Definition: software architecture |
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Main Description
Software architecture encompasses:
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the significant decisions about the organization of a software system
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the selection of the structural elements and their interfaces by which the system is composed together with their
behavior as specified in the collaboration among those elements
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the composition of the structural and behavioral elements into progressively larger subsystems
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the architectural style that guides this organization, these elements and their interfaces, their collaborations,
and their composition
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