Software, systems and enterprise. Architecture description

Scope

This International Standard specifies the manner in which architecture descriptions of systems are organized and expressed.

This International Standard specifies architecture viewpoints, architecture frameworks and architecture description languages for use in architecture descriptions.

This International Standard also provides motivations for terms and concepts used; presents guidance on specifying architecture viewpoints; and demonstrates the use of this International Standard with other standards.

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Purpose

The complexity of man-made systems has grown to an unprecedented level. This has led to new opportunities, but also to increased challenges for the organizations that create and utilize systems. Concepts, principles and procedures of architecting are increasingly applied to help manage the complexity faced by stakeholders of systems. Conceptualization of a system’s architecture, as expressed in an architecture description, assists the understanding of the system’s essence and key properties pertaining to its behaviour, composition and evolution, which in turn affect concerns such as the feasibility, utility and maintainability of the system. Architecture descriptions are used by the parties that create, utilize and manage modern systems to improve communication and co-operation, enabling them to work in an integrated, coherent fashion. Architecture frameworks and architecture description languages are being created as assets that codify the conventions and common practices of architecting and the description of architectures within different communities and domains of application. This International Standard addresses the creation, analysis and sustainment of architectures of systems through the use of architecture descriptions. © ISO/IEC 2022 All rights reserved

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