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UML Architecture

Software architecture defines the high-level structure of a software system, considering factors like user needs, quality, and operational environment. It provides a clear design that enhances productivity and maintainability for developers, while accommodating various perspectives from stakeholders. The architecture is represented through five views: use case, design, implementation, process, and deployment, each capturing different aspects of the system.

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UML Architecture

Software architecture defines the high-level structure of a software system, considering factors like user needs, quality, and operational environment. It provides a clear design that enhances productivity and maintainability for developers, while accommodating various perspectives from stakeholders. The architecture is represented through five views: use case, design, implementation, process, and deployment, each capturing different aspects of the system.

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UML- Architecture

Software architecture is all about how a software system is built at its highest level. It
is needed to think big from multiple perspectives with quality and design in mind. The
software team is tied to many practical concerns, such as:

o The structure of the development team.


o The needs of the business.
o Development cycle.
o The intent of the structure itself.

Software architecture provides a basic design of a complete software system. It defines


the elements included in the system, the functions each element has, and how each
element relates to one another. In short, it is a big picture or overall structure of the
whole system, how everything works together.

To form an architecture, the software architect will take several factors into
consideration:

o What will the system be used for?


o Who will be using the system?
o What quality matters to them?
o Where will the system run?

The architect plans the structure of the system to meet the needs like these. It is
essential to have proper software architecture, mainly for a large software system.
Having a clear design of a complete system as a starting point provides a solid basis
for developers to follow.

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Each developer will know what needs to be implemented and how things relate to
meet the desired needs efficiently. One of the main advantages of software
architecture is that it provides high productivity to the software team. The software
development becomes more effective as it comes up with an explained structure in
place to coordinate work, implement individual features, or ground discussions on
potential issues. With a lucid architecture, it is easier to know where the key
responsibilities are residing in the system and where to make changes to add new
requirements or simply fixing the failures.
In addition, a clear architecture will help to achieve quality in the software with a well-
designed structure using principles like separation of concerns; the system becomes
easier to maintain, reuse, and adapt. The software architecture is useful to people such
as software developers, the project manager, the client, and the end-user. Each one
will have different perspectives to view the system and will bring different agendas to
a project. Also, it provides a collection of several views. It can be best understood as a
collection of five views:

1. Use case view


2. Design view
3. Implementation view
4. Process view
5. Development view

Use case view


o It is a view that shows the functionality of the system as perceived by external
actors.
o It reveals the requirements of the system.
o With UML, it is easy to capture the static aspects of this view in the use case
diagrams, whereas it?s dynamic aspects are captured in interaction diagrams,
state chart diagrams, and activity diagrams.

Design View

o It is a view that shows how the functionality is designed inside the system in
terms of static structure and dynamic behavior.
o It captures the vocabulary of the problem space and solution space.
o With UML, it represents the static aspects of this view in class and object
diagrams, whereas its dynamic aspects are captured in interaction diagrams,
state chart diagrams, and activity diagrams.

Implementation View

o It is the view that represents the organization of the core components and files.
o It primarily addresses the configuration management of the system?s releases.
o With UML, its static aspects are expressed in component diagrams, and the
dynamic aspects are captured in interaction diagrams, state chart diagrams, and
activity diagrams.

Process View

o It is the view that demonstrates the concurrency of the system.


o It incorporates the threads and processes that make concurrent system and
synchronized mechanisms.
o It primarily addresses the system's scalability, throughput, and performance.
o Its static and dynamic aspects are expressed the same way as the design view
but focus more on the active classes that represent these threads and processes.

Deployment View

o It is the view that shows the deployment of the system in terms of physical
architecture.
o It includes the nodes, which form the system hardware topology where the
system will be executed.
o It primarily addresses the distribution, delivery, and installation of the parts that
build the physical system.

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