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Chapter 6: Design and Architecture

Chapter 6: Design and Architecture

pp. 142-171

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, University of Arizona
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Summary

For any software project, large or small, architecture is key to managing the intrinsic complexity of software. The design of a system includes its architecture, so, more broadly, design is key to managing software complexity. Informally, architecture partitions a system into parts that are easier to work with than the system as a whole. Let us refer to the parts as architectural elements, or simply elements. With a clean architecture, we can reason about the system in terms of the properties of its elements, without worrying about how the elements are implemented.

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