definition of software architecture

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The software architecture of a system is the set of structures needed to reason about the system, which comprise software elements, relations among them, and properties of both.^[1] The term also refers to documentation of a system's "software architecture." Documenting software architecture facilitates communication between stakeholders, documents early decisions about high-level design, and allows reuse of design components and patterns between projects.

Architecture description languages

^{Architecture description languages}^(ADLs)

^{are used to describe a software architecture. Several different ADLs have been developed by different organizations, including}

^AADL^{(SAE standard),}
^Wright^{(developed by Carnegie Mellon),}
^Acme^{(developed by Carnegie Mellon),}
^{xADL (developed by UCI),}
^Darwin^{(developed by}^{Imperial College London}^),
^{DAOP-ADL (developed by University of Málaga),}
^and^ByADL^{(University of L'Aquila, Italy).}
^{Common elements of an ADL}