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We will sketch the big picture of architecting in this chapter—it is far more than just a phase for modeling boxes and lines between requirements and implementation. Today’s complex software systems require continuous architecting over the whole lifecycle of the software system. We will place particular emphasis on industrial practice, where architecting can never be done in the ideal way but where one has to continuously make deliberate tradeoffs.
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Knodel, J., Naab, M. (2016). What Is the Background of Architecture?. In: Pragmatic Evaluation of Software Architectures . The Fraunhofer IESE Series on Software and Systems Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34177-4_2
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