Architecture Description
In the ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 conceptual model an architecture description:
- expresses an architecture
- identifies a system of interest
- identifies 1 or more stakeholders
- identifies 1 or more concerns (about the system of interest)
- includes 1 or more architecture viewpoints and 1 or more architecture view
- includes 0 or more correspondence(s)
- includes 0 or more correspondence rules
- includes 1 or more architecture rationales
The conceptual model states that an architecture description must have a stakeholder, system of interest, identified concern(s), architecture viewpoint(s), architecture view(s) and architecture rationale(s). It states that an architecture description may have correspondences and correspondence rules.
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