Title: Good Undergraduate Text
Review: I appreciated the authors' "real world" sense in their discussions. They don't get overly religious about a documentation style and they emphasize the need for a holistic approach to understanding architecture's impact on the application and the organization (e.g. work assignments, organizational view, risk assessment, ATAM as a communication tool etc).I particularly liked their presentation on the building blocks of an architecture as well as their discussion on tactics.My only criticism, and the students' as well, were the study cases. They threw too much at the reader about specific projects (some which were never completed). I think there should have been a better balance on the type of applications as well.I do plan on using this text again for my class next year.
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