IEEE 1471 - IEEE Terminology Related To Software Architecture

IEEE Terminology Related To Software Architecture

According to IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology the following definitions are used:

• architect: The person, team, or organization responsible for designing systems architecture.
• architectural description (AD): A collection of products to document an architecture.
• architecture: The fundamental organization of a system embodied in its components, their relationships to each other, and to the environment, and the principles guiding its design and evolution.
• designing: The activities of defining, documenting, maintaining, improving, and certifying proper implementation of an architecture.
• system: A collection of components organized to accomplish a specific function or set of functions. The term system encompasses individual applications, systems in the traditional sense, subsystems, systems of systems, product lines, product families, whole enterprises, and other aggregations of interest.
• system stakeholder: An individual, team, or organization (or classes thereof) with interests in, or concerns relative to, a system.
• view: A representation of a whole system from the perspective of a related set of concerns.
• viewpoint: A specification of the conventions for constructing and using a view. A pattern or template from which to develop individual views by establishing the purposes and audience for a view and the techniques for its creation and analysis.