An important part of architecture design is documenting the design, including the many design decisions that are made during the process. This typically comes in the form of sketching architecture views and documenting the design rationale.
Documenting the software architecture design
Sketching the architecture design
Software architectures are commonly documented through the creation of architecture views. Architecture views are representations of a software architecture that are used to document it and communicate it to various stakeholders. Multiple views of an architecture are typically required, as a software architecture is too complex to be represented in a single, comprehensive model.
Formal documentation of a software...