Software architecture in practice / Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-413) and index.

Part I. Introduction -- What is software architecture? -- Why is software architecture important? -- Part II. Quality attributes -- Understanding quality attributes -- Availability -- Deployability -- Energy efficiency -- Integrability -- Modifiability -- Performance -- Safety -- Security -- Testability -- Usability -- Working with other quality attributes -- Part III. Architectural solutions -- Software interfaces -- Virtualization -- The Cloud and distributed computing -- Mobile systems -- Part IV. Scalable architecture practices -- Architecturally significant requirements -- Designing an architecture -- Evaluating an architecture -- Documenting an architecture -- Managing architecture debt -- Part V. Architecture and the organization -- The role of architects in projects -- Architecture competence -- Part VI. Conclusions -- A glimpse of the future: Quantum computing.