Exercises

In the link below, you'll find a architecture document for Web Curator system. Take a look at it. What is the purpose of it? What things the document describes? What has left out / what has not been described? Does the document match your view about how software architectures are supposed to be documented? If, why? If not, why? Did you get good picture of the system? What kind of things helped you? Was there something you found hard to understand? WCT system architecture:

Post-task

Question 1

Which things are affecting a SW architecture?

Implementation tool XYZ should be exploited during the product development

Customer needs

Graphical design of the UI

Availability of suitable developers

Question 2

There have been attempts to describe software architecture. Select correct statements

Architecture should not constrain the implementation by any means

Architecture may define a dynamic structure

Architecture comprises scenarios, personas and user requirements

Architecture document should promote programmers' creativity

Architecture should report used design patterns

Question 3

Architecture should not be used to evaluate the quality:

TRUE

FALSE

Question 4

A software architecture determines

The communication between different parts of the software.

How to handle exceptions

How much time can be used to develop certain components

How to utilize mysql database

Question 5

Not all systems have an architecture. It exists only if explicitly planned.

TRUE

FALSE

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