--- product_id: 8116103 title: "Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond (SEI Series in Software Engineering)" price: "Rp1766783" currency: IDR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.id/products/8116103-documenting-software-architectures-views-and-beyond-sei-series-in-software store_origin: ID region: Indonesia --- # Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond (SEI Series in Software Engineering) **Price:** Rp1766783 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond (SEI Series in Software Engineering) - **How much does it cost?** Rp1766783 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.id](https://www.desertcart.id/products/8116103-documenting-software-architectures-views-and-beyond-sei-series-in-software) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description “This new edition is brighter, shinier, more complete, more pragmatic, more focused than the previous one, and I wouldn't have thought it possible to improve on the original. As the field of software architecture has grown over these past decades, there is much more to be said, much more that we know, and much more that we can reflect upon of what's worked and what hasn't―and the authors here do all that, and more.” ―From the Foreword by Grady Booch, IBM Fellow Software architecture―the conceptual glue that holds every phase of a project together for its many stakeholders―is widely recognized as a critical element in modern software development. Practitioners have increasingly discovered that close attention to a software system's architecture pays valuable dividends. Without an architecture that is appropriate for the problem being solved, a project will stumble along or, most likely, fail. Even with a superb architecture, if that architecture is not well understood or well communicated the project is unlikely to succeed. Documenting Software Architectures, Second Edition, provides the most complete and current guidance, independent of language or notation, on how to capture an architecture in a commonly understandable form. Drawing on their extensive experience, the authors first help you decide what information to document, and then, with guidelines and examples (in various notations, including UML), show you how to express an architecture so that others can successfully build, use, and maintain a system from it. The book features rules for sound documentation, the goals and strategies of documentation, architectural views and styles, documentation for software interfaces and software behavior, and templates for capturing and organizing information to generate a coherent package. New and improved in this second edition: Coverage of architectural styles such as service-oriented architectures, multi-tier architectures, and data models Guidance for documentation in an Agile development environment Deeper treatment of documentation of rationale, reflecting best industrial practices Improved templates, reflecting years of use and feedback, and more documentation layout options A new, comprehensive example (available online), featuring documentation of a Web-based service-oriented system Reference guides for three important architecture documentation languages: UML, AADL, and SySML Review: Continues to impress - This is one of those books about which it is difficult to say enough good things. I found the first edition very influential on my on thinking to say nothing of enlightening. Impressively, the authors have improved this second edition, for example moving the comprehensive sample documentation online, thus making room for more of the lucid and rational explanation of documentation practices that made the first edition so useful. I usually include a discussion of who would benefit from a reading in my reviews. Anybody who thinks they might be producers or consumers of software architecture documentation owes it to themselves to get a copy of this book now. Others might think they have no need for this book, but still should read it. This includes Business Analysts, who, this book makes clear, are stakeholders of software architectures. BAs will also their thinking sharpened on how to develop useful documentation and use graphical notation in a precise and meaningful fashion. This book is on my short list of classics of software engineering. It is a book I return to often. Reading this second edition, even after being fully familiar with the first, was still a richly satisfying experience. I cannot recommend this book enough. Review: Exceptionally Well-Written - This is an exceptionally well-written book, and I'm glad to have it in my library. It gives thorough and detailed advice, with plenty of sidebars and cross references. The book has a URL to a website that presents an architectural description that embodies many of the recommendations from the book. There were some areas where the book fell short of what I was looking for guidance on: (1) the intersection of the requirements document and the architecture document; (2) the intersection the architecture document and the detailed design specification; (3) where & how interaction scenarios are documented (the book does mention use cases and includes them in a view in the example architecture document). Still, the book covers so much so well. If you have an interest in creating software architecture documents, I highly recommend this book. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #283,535 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #30 in Technical Writing Reference (Books) #45 in Software Design & Engineering #249 in Software Development (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 Reviews | ## Images ![Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond (SEI Series in Software Engineering) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71F6EBJiUbL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Continues to impress *by B***E on May 30, 2011* This is one of those books about which it is difficult to say enough good things. I found the first edition very influential on my on thinking to say nothing of enlightening. Impressively, the authors have improved this second edition, for example moving the comprehensive sample documentation online, thus making room for more of the lucid and rational explanation of documentation practices that made the first edition so useful. I usually include a discussion of who would benefit from a reading in my reviews. Anybody who thinks they might be producers or consumers of software architecture documentation owes it to themselves to get a copy of this book now. Others might think they have no need for this book, but still should read it. This includes Business Analysts, who, this book makes clear, are stakeholders of software architectures. BAs will also their thinking sharpened on how to develop useful documentation and use graphical notation in a precise and meaningful fashion. This book is on my short list of classics of software engineering. It is a book I return to often. Reading this second edition, even after being fully familiar with the first, was still a richly satisfying experience. I cannot recommend this book enough. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Exceptionally Well-Written *by J***Y on November 4, 2012* This is an exceptionally well-written book, and I'm glad to have it in my library. It gives thorough and detailed advice, with plenty of sidebars and cross references. The book has a URL to a website that presents an architectural description that embodies many of the recommendations from the book. There were some areas where the book fell short of what I was looking for guidance on: (1) the intersection of the requirements document and the architecture document; (2) the intersection the architecture document and the detailed design specification; (3) where & how interaction scenarios are documented (the book does mention use cases and includes them in a view in the example architecture document). Still, the book covers so much so well. If you have an interest in creating software architecture documents, I highly recommend this book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Providing Structure for the Messy World of Architecture *by P***R on April 13, 2012* Some of us have been practicing software modeling since the early days of Rational Rose (about 20 years ago!) And still we find this business of describing a system's architecture to be vexing. Just give us some rules! Ah, but it's not so simple. Our job as architects and designers is not to just fill out a template. It's to wrap our brains around requirements, ponder solutions, innovate, and sort it all out for ourselves and others. This book feels like modeling 5.0 or something like that. It's an evolutionary next step in the art and craft of communicating software architectures. Paul Clements and team have done a good job of proposing a framework for exploring and communicating designs. It's kind of easy to remember (three views). Yet they recognize that this problem doesn't have a formulaic solution. I might complain that the book doesn't actually work through a complete example--rather, it is rich with tiny examples of each view and style. The comprehensive example is online. Based on personal experience, I might add that this approach needs the support of modern presentation techniques. Audiences--even highly technical ones--may not warm up to a purely views-based presentation. All in all, I highly recommend this book to all software practitioners. ## Frequently Bought Together - Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond - Software Architecture in Practice (SEI Series in Software Engineering) - Designing Software Architectures: A Practical Approach (SEI Series in Software Engineering) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.id/products/8116103-documenting-software-architectures-views-and-beyond-sei-series-in-software](https://www.desertcart.id/products/8116103-documenting-software-architectures-views-and-beyond-sei-series-in-software) --- *Product available on Desertcart Indonesia* *Store origin: ID* *Last updated: 2026-05-29*