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arc42 by Example

By : Dr. Gernot Starke, Michael Simons, Stefan Zörner, Ralf D. Müller
Book Image

arc42 by Example

By: Dr. Gernot Starke, Michael Simons, Stefan Zörner, Ralf D. Müller

Overview of this book

When developers document the architecture of their systems, they often invent their own specific ways of articulating structures, designs, concepts, and decisions. What they need is a template that enables simple and efficient software architecture documentation. arc42 by Example shows how it's done through several real-world examples. Each example in the book, whether it is a chess engine, a huge CRM system, or a cool web system, starts with a brief description of the problem domain and the quality requirements. Then, you'll discover the system context with all the external interfaces. You'll dive into an overview of the solution strategy to implement the building blocks and runtime scenarios. The later chapters also explain various cross-cutting concerns and how they affect other aspects of a program.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)
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Acknowledgements
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VII - macOS Menu Bar Application

VI.10 Quality Requirements

QS1: Confidentiality

In order to keep control over the content of your documentation, docToolchain will never use a web-based, remote service for any task without the explicit knowledge of the user.

QS2: Security (besides Confidentiality)

When you think of documentation, security is not the first thing that comes to mind, is it?

However, when you automate some parts of your documentation, or even just include remote sources, security comes into play.

It could even be that you use a plugin (such as the asciidoctorj-screenshot plugin, which is available at https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctorj-screenshot) that lets you execute arbitrary code in the generation phase.

In docToolchain, we assume that the documentation is under your control, and hence, do not apply any special security measures besides respecting QS1: Confidentiality.

QS3: Repeatability

Every run of a docToolchain task creates the same predictable output.

This rule ensures that it doesn't matter if...