Concept
Applying the term “architecture” to software systems was originally a metaphor referring to the classical field of the architecture of buildings. The term “software architecture” is used to denote three concepts:
- the high level structure of a software system
- the discipline of creating such a high level structure
- the documentation of this high level structure
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