Introduction to Modeling Software Architecture Lecture 9

What is Architectural Modeling?
Recall that we have characterized architecture as the set of principal design decisions made about a system
We can define models and modeling in those terms
An architectural model is an artifact that captures some or all of the design decisions that comprise a system’s architecture
Architectural modeling is there ification and documentation of those design decisions
How we model is strongly influenced by the notations we choose:
An architectural modeling notation is a language or means of capturing design decisions.