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Illustration of the 4+1 Architectural View Model. 4+1 is a view model used for "describing the architecture of software-intensive systems, based on the use of multiple, concurrent views". [1] The views are used to describe the system from the viewpoint of different stakeholders, such as end-users, developers, system engineers, and project managers.
Often, no single optimal solution for any given set of architecture design problems exists. Architectural decision making is a core responsibility of software architects; [5] additional motivation for/of the importance of architectural decisions as a first-class concept in software architecture can be found online. [6]
Code diagrams (level 4): provide additional details about the design of the architectural elements that can be mapped to code. The C4 model relies at this level on existing notations such as Unified Modelling Language (UML), Entity Relation Diagrams (ERD) or diagrams generated by Integrated Development Environments (IDE).
This work influenced both architectural thinking about programming languages (e.g., Ada), and design and architecture notations (such as Buhr diagrams and use case maps and codified in architectural features of UML: packages, subsystems, dependences) and much of the work on architecture description languages.
Architecture documentation (also known as software architecture description) is a special type of design document. In a way, architecture documents are third derivative from the code (design document being second derivative, and code documents being first). Very little in the architecture documents is specific to the code itself.
A design is the order of a system that connects individual components. Often, it can interact with other systems. Design is important to achieve high reliability, low cost, and good maintain-ability. [2] We can distinguish two types of program design phases: Architectural or high-level design; Detailed or low-level design
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High-level design (HLD) explains the architecture that would be used to develop a system.The architecture diagram provides an overview of an entire system, identifying the main components that would be developed for the product and their interfaces.