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Software Architecture with C++

By : Adrian Ostrowski, Piotr Gaczkowski
Book Image

Software Architecture with C++

By: Adrian Ostrowski, Piotr Gaczkowski

Overview of this book

Software architecture refers to the high-level design of complex applications. It is evolving just like the languages we use, but there are architectural concepts and patterns that you can learn to write high-performance apps in a high-level language without sacrificing readability and maintainability. If you're working with modern C++, this practical guide will help you put your knowledge to work and design distributed, large-scale apps. You'll start by getting up to speed with architectural concepts, including established patterns and rising trends, then move on to understanding what software architecture actually is and start exploring its components. Next, you'll discover the design concepts involved in application architecture and the patterns in software development, before going on to learn how to build, package, integrate, and deploy your components. In the concluding chapters, you'll explore different architectural qualities, such as maintainability, reusability, testability, performance, scalability, and security. Finally, you will get an overview of distributed systems, such as service-oriented architecture, microservices, and cloud-native, and understand how to apply them in application development. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build distributed services using modern C++ and associated tools to deliver solutions as per your clients' requirements.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Section 1: Concepts and Components of Software Architecture
5
Section 2: The Design and Development of C++ Software
6
Architectural and System Design
10
Section 3: Architectural Quality Attributes
15
Section 4: Cloud-Native Design Principles
21
About Packt

Documenting functional requirements

Each requirement should be precise and testable. Consider this example: "The system will have a ranking system for the drivers." How would you create tests against it? It's better to create a section for the ranking system and specify the precise requirements for it there.

Consider this other example: If there's a free driver close to the rider, they should be notified of the incoming ride request. What if there's more than one driver available? What maximum distance can we still describe as being close?

This requirement is both imprecise and lacking parts of the business logic. We can only hope that the case where there are no free drivers is covered by another requirement.

In 2009, Rolls Royce developed its Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax (EARS), to help cope with this. In EARS, there are five basic types of requirements, which should be written in a different way and serve different purposes. They can be later combined...