Understanding the software architecture of what you're building can prevent chaos and encourage collective code ownership. But how do you do this without resorting to big design up front and UML?

Embedded software and its specification is a vital component in deploying SoCs with reduced time-to-market. A key contribution to this is the technology area of embedded software architecture. This ...

Software architecture is the high‐level blueprint of a software system, delineating its main components, their interactions, and the underlying design principles that govern their organisation.

An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2020, with a focus on fundamental architectural patterns, framework usage, and design skills.

Software architecture isn't about big design upfront Software architecture has traditionally been associated with big design upfront and Waterfall-style projects, where a team would ensure that every ...

The last three articles have explored the five steps to designing an embedded software architecture. So far, we’ve separated our software architecture into hardware-dependent and independent ...

The software architect passes the entire architecture, or parts thereof, on to one or several software developers for further refinement (design and implementation).